Words matter. These are the best Hamid Karzai Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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.
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.
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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.
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
They’re criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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.
Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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.
I don’t think Osama is a Muslim. I don’t think Osama is a human being.
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.
Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
I don’t think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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.
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.
We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
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.
