"Afghanistan is a society that is based on tribalism and ethnicity, and our greatest and what has been reconfirmed today, Mr. Chairman, is that we continue down a road of trying to remake Afghanistan into a democratic system, and that's why we are failing."
"Well, thank you very much, and I am sorry that I don't join in your optimism, and watching people pray together is not--I mean, the next thing we know--we could say, well, the next step would be sitti..."
"We want the nuclear freeze, which would have frozen the Soviets into a--into a superior position with nuclear weapons and Reagan said no."
"We made a mistake in the beginning, trying to, as I say, recreate this centralized government in Kabul..."
"Having spent time in the Reagan White House and watched the same unrelenting negativity that the Democrats were playing against Ronald Reagan..."
"If we wanted to eliminate the poppy production in Afghanistan, we could do it within a week."
"The American people--we are in a murky situation here. The Pakistanis, who we have been treating with kid gloves, are, clearly, a pro-terrorist element and a pro-Taliban element in this whole fight, a..."
"What really worked in Afghanistan--what really worked after 9/11 was when we allied ourselves with the anti-Taliban forces..."
"But as Mr. Green points out, just doing a meeting that's not an achievement. That's a concession."
"Well, it seems to me that we have to be much more diligent on--in that area and--if--unless we have accountability and responsibility for these things, we can expect to have more problems."
"one of the greatest things I've been proud of is Ronald Reagan's making human rights and democracy a major, major part of his administration's goals."