19 Quotes by Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

There is certainly more violence and there are violent elements trying to come back, ... I think this is a situation that will probably be difficult for some time.

There are people who will try to kill candidates and who will try to stop the election, ... They will fail. They have absolutely no chance of stopping this election.

significant ... advance on the road to democracy.

I have absolutely no doubt we will maintain the United States and allied military capabilities to confront any challenge.

What you have here is already so much better,

Pakistan is doing a lot more than they were doing, ... They have put thousands of troops on the border. ... I think this is a considerable effort. It is going in the right direction.

We have to keep a force that's agile enough to back up NATO.

We have more Afghan police, more Afghan army, more American army, more international forces. I believe we will have a secure elections,