I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.
And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.
I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result
You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.
Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.
There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle. . . There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
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 Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.
The Taliban is the worst. . . great heroin though.
I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Did you hear about this 20-year-old kid named John Walker from Northern California who was apparently fighting for the Taliban?. . . It didn't take long for the TV networks to jump on this Walker thing. CBS has a new show: 'Walker: Taliban Ranger. '
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?'