I cannot tolerate immorality.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

The economy is the silent elephant in the room.

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

No power in the country can dissolve the government.

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

As long as I am president, the rights of women will be protected.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

The privileged elites are part of the globalization moment that we live in.

My entire life has been guided by a sense of equality, equality for loved ones.

When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.

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

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

President Trump is engaging and if you get your points across then he asks you questions.

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

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

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

Afghanistan cannot be a burden on the international community and it has to become an asset.

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

Sovereignty of Afghanistan must be accepted categorically by Pakistan so that we can move forward.

If I get elected, my government will promote a culture of acceptance and non-violence in the country.

I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

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

Mecca and Medinah is a very special place in the hearts of every Muslim but particularly for every Afghan.

When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.

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