19 Quotes by Ronald Neumann

Ultimately, you want people to believe in the system. The whole thing makes no sense if people don't believe that their vote counts.

It would be useful to lay down an internationally agreed set of goals, benchmarks.

These expectations of the people will have to be met. What the election does is give the Afghan people a new channel to voice their opinions and demands.

These expectations of the people will have to be met,

This is too critical to just say we want victory but we want it on the cheap.

It's very clear the international community is still solidly here and the next piece we have to do is to try to, in a post-Bonn conference, define a little more sharply what the steps need to be,

The international community is going to have to stay involved for a long time,

If you're going to go down this path of encouraging democracy, then to a very large extent you just suck it up.

I don't think that any election is perfect, ... historic milestone in Afghan history.