I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

Security services, from Afghanistan to the United States, should be alert throughout the Ramadan period, but especially on the 27th day of the holy month.

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

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

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

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

The use of military force against Iraq and Afghanistan was and remains just.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan.

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.