This collection holds 160 taliban quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Leon Panetta, George W. Bush and Richard Ojeda.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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The Taliban is resilient.

Now the Taliban will pay a price.

I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Defeat the Taliban. Secure the population.

Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan

The Taliban is the worst...great heroin though.

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.

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

We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.

I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.

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

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

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

The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

The SEALs rarely call the Taliban 'terrorists' because they respect them as worthy opponents.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

I think the morale of Taliban fighters has been affected adversely as a result of the lack of success.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

All civilian politicians in Pakistan are puppets of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), military, and the Taliban.

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

I was point man, which meant I was the first through the door, hunting down Taliban commanders, knocking down forts every night.

I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

I have a lot of security - I lost my mother to the Taliban because of a lack of security - and that explains partly why I can be so vocal.

The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/11 - Al-Qaeda did. That's why I and other people joined the military - to go after Al Qaeda. Not the Taliban.

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

Without U.S. forces in the country, there is a strong possibility Afghanistan could host a reinvigorated Taliban allied to a reinvigorated al Qaeda.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

A victory for the Taliban in Afghanistan would have catastrophic consequences for the world - particularly for South Asia, for Central Asia, and for the Middle East.

Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.

The condition that the Taliban part with al Qaeda is not just a condition, it is an objective. We must convince them that al Qaeda ideology and dogma will not help them.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

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