Hamid Karzai Quotes

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

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• We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

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• We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

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• If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

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• 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.

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• I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

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• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

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• Where liberty dies, evil grows.

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• They’re criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

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• 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.

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Hamid Karzai (29)

Birth:	24th December, 1957
Nationality:	Afghan
Profession:	Statesman, President

About

Hamid Karzai is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 22 December 2001. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001. During the December 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Germany, Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six-month term as Chairman of the Interim Administration.

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