Hamid Karzai Quotes on Government (4 Quotes)

From this forum, I would like to give them a categorical reassurance that Afghanistan will stay firmly with the government of Pakistan in the fight against terrorism and that we are willing to extend every cooperation.

We are in a much better situation today than we were six months ago, than we were a year ago or before that, ... I am sure six months from now, a year from now, Afghanistan will be better served by the government, better administered by the country and more secure.

The major lesson in Afghanistan was that the Afghan people wanted change, from the tyranny of terrorism, ... The Iraqi people also will gain nothing if they allow these people to come from outside and destroy their lives. They must go to polls. They must take this opportunity, elect their people to parliament, and have a government of their own, and have peace. That's a desire for them and a way out for them, from our side.

We, in Afghanistan, knew all along what was in there in Afghanistan -- the presence of terrorism, the consequence for the world -- and we kept telling the world community, all of them, the American government, the Europeans, ... Unfortunately ... our predictions came true in the most tragic way for Afghanistan and for the United States of America. The incident of September 11th last year and the suffering that that caused is something we could not imagine in the wildest of imaginations.