Top 45 Karzai Quotes
#1. I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#2. We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
Colin Powell
#3. President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had too much of a tendency to want to rule by listening to all voices at all times.
Khaled Hosseini
#4. We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.
Ashraf Ghani
#5. If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.
Rachel Maddow
#6. There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.
Condoleezza Rice
#7. Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held wide-ranging talks in Kabul on Wednesay on the political and security situation in
Anonymous
#8. The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
Hamid Karzai
#9. People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
Hamid Karzai
#10. A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.
Reza Aslan
#11. We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
Hamid Karzai
#12. No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.
Hamid Karzai
#13. The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
Hamid Karzai
#14. The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.
Hamid Karzai
#15. But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
Hamid Karzai
#16. Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
Hamid Karzai
#17. Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Hamid Karzai
#18. Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
Hamid Karzai
#19. Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
Hamid Karzai
#20. As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
Hamid Karzai
#21. I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
Hamid Karzai
#22. The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
Hamid Karzai
#23. Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
Hamid Karzai
#24. Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai
#25. Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.
Hamid Karzai
#26. I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
Hamid Karzai
#27. Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother
Hamid Karzai
#28. The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
Hamid Karzai
#29. A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
Hamid Karzai
#30. If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
Hamid Karzai
#31. Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
Hamid Karzai
#32. The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
Hamid Karzai
#33. I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai
#34. They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
Hamid Karzai
#35. No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
Hamid Karzai
#36. I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
Hamid Karzai
#38. As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Hamid Karzai
#39. This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai
#40. The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
Hamid Karzai
#41. The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai
#42. If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai
#43. Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.
Hamid Karzai
#44. I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai
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