Hillary Clinton Quotes

The president Barack Obama decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory.

Hillary Clinton

• Troops
• Afghanistan
• President Barack Obama

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• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Afghanistan

• The main aim is to prevent the events in Afghanistan from destabilizing the situation in neighboring countries, ... What is happening in Afghanistan goes beyond the boundaries of this country and has regional significance.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Country
  • Situation
  • Afghanistan

• We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Important
  • Administration
  • Afghanistan

• It is inconceivable that military commanders would permit their troops to cross an international border without explicit political authorization to do so. That clearly would be a decision solely for your Government.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Political
  • Government
  • Decision

• We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • World
  • Important
  • Women

• This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Truth
  • America
  • Hope

• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Rest

• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  

  F. William Engdahl
  • Democracy
  • Administration
  • Afghanistan

• Hang in there, all of you out on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan or on aboard ships in the middle of the ocean.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Ocean
  • Lines
  • Iraq

• Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Troops
  • Cossacks

• The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Worse
  • Troops
  • Artillery

• War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Game
  • Reputation
  • Troops

• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Energy
  • Moves
  • Troops

• It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • War
  • Troops
  • Good Humour

• If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Different
  • Concern

• If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Interesting
  • Afghanistan
  • Kabul

• While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Iraq
  • Admiration

• I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • African-American
  • President Barack Obama
  • Black Man

• People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Food
  • Jesus
  • Planet

• At the end of the day, in spite of the risks, do life with your people. They need to see you struggle and process your day-to-day walk with Christ. They need to see you desire community, and you need to see transformation take place among your community.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Community
  • Christ
  • Transformation

• I've designed exercise video games, running shoes, healthy beverages, and workout equipment.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Video Games
  • Workout equipment

• The president Barack Obama decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Troops
  • Afghanistan
  • President Barack Obama