(486 quotes found)
“During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.”
W. C. Fields
“To ask brave soldiers to go into the inferno of Afghanistan and Iraq and by virtue of their skill and courage, under the televised scrutiny of a global audience, end the rule of murderers was not easy. Nor was staying on to help the helpless. Yes, the truly frightening alternative was the blustering inaction that we have seen for the past 20 years that led to September 11 and the real quagmire in the Middle East.”
Victor Davis Hanson
“We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.”
Senator John Kerry
“This is not Afghanistan... When we approach the question of Iraq, we realize here is a country which has a resource. And it's obvious, it's oil. And it can bring in and does bring in a certain amount of revenue each year... $10, $15, even $18 billion... this is not a broke country.”
Richard Armitage
“If the innocent people who died in the attack on Afghanistan, and those who have been dying from lack of food and medical care in Iraq, are considered collaterals, are not the 3,000 who died in New York and the 200 in Bali also just collaterals, whose deaths are necessary for the operations to succeed?”
Mohamad Mahathir
“I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.”
Howard Dean
“We do know, of certain knowledge, that (Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“There are a lot of messages coming out of (Afghanistan) we just don't have the time to track.”
Katie McLaughlin
“Once . . . in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.”
“People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks . . . of biological and chemical weapons.”
Bill Clinton
