Afghan Self-Determination Quotes

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans themselves are going to define what happens here. And we have to convince ourselves that we have a strategy in place that empowers them to do that and that is realistic in what our expectations are from them and on what schedule.