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

Iraq

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)

Terrorism

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

2021

Afghan people are just so tired of war.

Khaled Hosseini

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.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Iraq Somalia

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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.

Craig Kilborn

Iraq

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

Iraq

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

Iraq

To claim that Britain and the US left Iraq a better place in 2003 is delusional.

Dominic Raab

Iraq

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

Dennis Miller

France Iraq

For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq.

Barack Obama - SOTU Address 2012

2012 Iraq

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)

Germany Fairytales

Australia... home of every animal that seems like it should already be extinct.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Australia

Russia... the prequel and sequel to the Sowjet Union.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Russia

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.

Terry Jones

Terrorism

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

Terry Jones

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.

Terry Jones

History

There's one thing that every terrorist knows: fear is the most effective explosive.

Fear Terrorism

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Terrorism

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.

Geert Wilders

Terrorism

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

European Union

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

Democracy German Unity 2021

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

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

Joe Biden - August 2024

2024

You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world.

Joe Biden - July 2024

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

Joe Biden - March 2024

Donald Trump

What did I learn in 2021? I learned that nobody learned anything in 2020.

Penn Parker in Death to 2021

2020 2021

2021 opens on a note of optimism. A range of lip smacking new vaccines promises to transform the COVID-pandemic from an ongoing crisis to a repressed traumatic memory.

Death to 2021

2021

Russia does not want other political groupings present near their homeland. That's not a hard thing to understand.

Vladimir Putin - December 2021

Russia 2021 Russia-Ukraine War

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Khaled Hosseini

Writing

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

Khaled Hosseini

Reading

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Khaled Hosseini

Baseball

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Nuclear Weapons

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.

Mohamed ElBaradei

NRA

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Privacy & Data

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

Michael Palin

Somalia

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Somalia - and that's practically the same thing.

Somalia

If you're a homeless, alcoholic Scott and you had tourettes... how would they ever know?

Jimmy Carr

Scotland

Canada also helped in two world wars and gave the world Neil Young, William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, Pamela Anderson, one quarter of Barney Stinson, instant mashed potatoes and best of all - you.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 12

William Shatner Leonard Cohen Pamela Anderson Neil Young Canada

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.

Nelson Mandela

USA

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

Chocolate Griechenland Switzerland

Life is too short to learn German.

Richard Porson (britischer klassischer Philologe) - 25.12.1759 - 25.09.1808

Germany

They say God invented whiskey to stop the Irish from rulin' the world.

Irish in Red Dead Redemption

Ireland Whiskey St. Patrick's Day

In order to get cheap accommodation in Australia, we like foreign people to do manual labour for us. Helping feed the cows is very important, they are the future of McDonald's.

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Australia McDonald's

People moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

Jens Stoltenberg

Norway

You need to find yourself a nice French boyfriend. That's the best way to learn the language. In bed.

Antoine Lambert in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

France Bed

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