Quotes and Sayings about Afghanistan

Quotes and Sayings about Afghanistan

The US government can't waste billions of dollars just blowing things up in the vague hope that it'll somehow turn into a success, unless of course those things are Iraq or Afghanistan. So SpaceX began with a big gamble.
John Oliver in Last Week Tonight - December 2023
What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.
Terry Jones - Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror (2009)
Watching 40 million people fall into chaos in Afghanistan because there's no electricity and no financial system - that can't be the strategy of the international community.
Angela Merkel - October 2021
American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.
Joe Biden - August 2021
Afghan people are just so tired of war.
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.

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In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.
If we're successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States.
Dick Cheney - September 2003
The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia. The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...- I mean of Ukraine.
George W. Bush - May 2022
To claim that Britain and the US left Iraq a better place in 2003 is delusional.
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The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.
For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq.
Barack Obama - SOTU Address 2012
Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.
John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)
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Australia... home of every animal that seems like it should already be extinct.
John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)
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Russia... the prequel and sequel to the Sowjet Union.
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What really alarms me about President Bush's "War on Terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is "Terrorism" going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.
We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
There's one thing that every terrorist knows: fear is the most effective explosive.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.
I believe in Europe. I am convinced by Europe. Not only as a heritage from the past, but as hope and a vision for the future.
Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - July 2020, Speech at the European Parliament
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Democracy isn't just there. We have to work for it together - every day.
Angela Merkel - October 2021, during the 31st Day of German Unity
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I am convinced that no force and no ideology can surpress the urge of the people for freedom, equality and peace in the long run.
Angela Merkel - August 2021
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One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the long-term security of both the Israeli and the Palestinian people.
To make sure Israelis and Palestinians alike live in equal measure of freedom and dignity, we will not give up on working towards that goal.
Joe Biden - November 2023
We must, without equivocation, denounce antisemitism.
We must, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia.

To all of you hurting: You belong.

You're all America.
Joe Biden - Oktober 2023
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Russia does not want other political groupings present near their homeland. That's not a hard thing to understand.
Vladimir Putin - December 2021
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
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I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.
If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Somalia - and that's practically the same thing.
If you're a homeless, alcoholic Scott and you had tourettes... how would they ever know?
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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.
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Life is too short to learn German.
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They say God invented whiskey to stop the Irish from rulin' the world.
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