Quotes of: Afghans Keyword

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Philip Hammond

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

Hamid Karzai

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

John R. Allen

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

Rebecca MacKinnon

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

Stephen Harper

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

Azita Ghanizada

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Azita Ghanizada

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

Eleanor Smeal

The simultaneity of near and far confused me; I thought it possible to find the past, the present and the future united in one place, giving it all that life can hold; but I had grave doubts that at any given moment life might reign both here and the...

All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.

Richard Engel

The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.

Richard Engel

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Sushmita Banerjee

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

Asne Seierstad

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

Condoleezza Rice

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

Hamid Karzai

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Khaled Hosseini

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

Al Franken

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

Stephen Kinzer

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

Stephen Kinzer

The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails.

Lindsey Graham