Hamid Karzai Quotes on Terrorism (19 Quotes)

co-operation between the drug trade and terrorism.

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

If we fail, we will fail as a state and eventually will fall back into the hands of terrorism.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

We see the continuation of terrorist activities directed against the Afghan people. India and Afghanistan will jointly fight to eliminate this menace from the region and the world,

Individual acts of terrorism we will continue to suffer for quite some time as well as the rest of the world.

It is separating people, not preventing terrorism.

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

Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

In three months time, with the help of the coalition, we defeated the Taliban and pockets of terrorism.

The message sent by voters was great, ... Look at the threats, look at the bombing, look at the terrorism, and despite that, the Afghan people came out and voted.

Whoever is found guilty of connection with terrorism, of connection with the perpetration of atrocities against the Afghan people -- they will be found, and they will be tried, ... Meet the Press.

We hope that this signature will bring to Afghanistan the stability and peace that we needed for so many years. We also hope that the cooperation between the Afghan state and the international security force and the United Nations will bring to an absolute end the presence of terrorism and banditry in Afghanistan.

Terrorism has no place in Afghanistan.

Terrorism will remain to affect us, will remain to attack us, for much more time to come, ... What is important for us right now is to continue to ... strengthen democratic institutions.

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.

The nature of the war on terrorism in Afghanistan has changed now,

in spite of the terrorism, in spite of the threats.

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.