(22 quotes found)
“Which is more important in world history: The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-exited Islamists or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?”
Zbignew Brzezinski
“I visited the Taliban embassy this morning and, while they did not come out and say 'yes they're in Kandahar,' they led me to believe that's where they were,”
John Mercer
“Mullah Hajji Jilani, a former Taliban sub-commander of Paktika province has renounced violence against government of Afghanistan and joined the peace process on August 4.”
Cindy Moore
“We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.”
Tariq Aziz
“Coalition ground and air forces are on the ground... they are bombing the Taliban.”
Yousuf Stanizai
“Coalition ground and air forces are on the ground ... they are bombing the Taliban.”
“All I know is he was fighting for the Taliban and he said he was off to Kabul to defend Kabul... That's when I picked myself up from the floor.”
David Hicks
“They're good, but ... the Taliban do still exist and they are capable of doing harm,”
Peter Rodman
“Our goal is to get the tribes in the south to oppose the Taliban, ... They have been relatively quiet thus far. We need them to oppose the Taliban. Therefore, we need them to recognize that they're going to have a voice in the post-Taliban government.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“The Taliban regime has totally failed to consider or respond to in any proper way to the ultimatum that was given very clearly by President Bush to them that they either yield up bin Laden and his associates and close down those terrorism camps or they become the enemy themselves because they are harboring them,”
Tony Blair
