Taliban Quotes

• living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

  

  Kathy Lette
  • Dance
  • Teenage
  • Allowed

• On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Shot
  • Banners

• While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Terrorists

• I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

  

  Aitzaz Ahsan
  • Result
  • Negotiations
  • Taliban

• Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

  

  Max Cleland
  • Politics
  • Missions
  • Afghanistan

• We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • Country
  • War
  • Citizens

• We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?

  

  William Shawn
  • Feels
  • Taliban
  • Lease

• It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that.

  

  Mustafa Akyol
  • Movement
  • Middle
  • Afghanistan

• I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Choices
  • Surrender
  • Terrorist