80 Quotes by Ashraf Ghani

Pathology by Daesh is distinctively to swallow its opponents, to frighten the population. In that regard, the threat is very real.

President Karzai was an accidental president. There was no paradigm for the conditions he faced, because no one could have imagined 9/11. He had to improvise under very difficult conditions to hold this country together.

President Obama called me on his last day in office and said the only person who never asked him for anything was me.

Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the rare exception, not the norm.

If al-Qaida, all apologies to Microsoft for the analogy, is Windows 1, Daish is Windows 5.

Peace cannot come without the government of Afghanistan speaking directly to the Taliban or the Taliban talking directly to us.

When we get peace in Afghanistan, we'll go to New Zealand to learn best practices for raising sheep. We'll go to Switzerland and study hydroelectric projects.

This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.