The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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.

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

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.