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Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.
Ashraf Ghani
Mind
Concentrate
Deadlines
Should
You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.
Ashraf Ghani
Democracy
You
Together
Matters
Talk
Get
Get Together
Where
Want
Process
Decision-Making
Decision-Making Process
Much
Really
No power in the country can dissolve the government.
Ashraf Ghani
Government
Power
Country
Dissolve
In 2001, we didn't have an army; we had remnants of a dissolved army that had no hope. Our generals had literally become busboys.
Ashraf Ghani
Hope
Army
Become
Dissolved
Our
No Hope
Generals
Had
Literally
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country is dominated by drug economy and a mafia. Textbook economics does not work in my context, and I have very few recommendations from anybody as to how to put together a legal economy.
Ashraf Ghani
Work
Together
Legal
Country
Economics
Few
Recommendations
Mafia
Put
Economy
Most
Practically
Does
How
Context
Textbook
Very
Dominated
Taught
Anybody
Useless
Elite
Universities
We need to get a stable Afghanistan that can ensure the security of Americans, Europeans, and others on the one hand, but more fundamentally our own democratic rights and institutions.
Ashraf Ghani
Rights
Own
Others
Our
Ensure
Security
More
Institutions
Democratic
Hand
Get
American
Stable
Afghanistan
Europeans
Fundamentally
Need
The key demand for me from the public across the 34 provinces is to transform the state into an instrument of the rule of law, transform the economy into a productive system and change the education system.
Ashraf Ghani
Education
Me
Change
Key
Law
State
Rule
Rule Of Law
System
Demand
Economy
Instrument
Provinces
Transform
Public
Across
Productive
I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?
Ashraf Ghani
You
Peace
Shaken
Supposed
Hand
Engaged
Pakistan
Extended
I cannot tolerate immorality.
Ashraf Ghani
Immorality
Cannot
Tolerate
We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.
Ashraf Ghani
Enemy
Focus
Poverty
Our
Must
Solution
Noble
Goal
Biggest
If election is your goal, you're never going to engage in reform. Reform has to be your goal. Election is the means. You run for office in order to do something, not in order to perpetuate yourself.
Ashraf Ghani
You
Yourself
Election
Run
Something
Never
Perpetuate
Goal
Reform
Office
Going
Order
Engage
Means
Your
President Trump is engaging and if you get your points across then he asks you questions.
Ashraf Ghani
You
President
President Trump
Points
He
Trump
Questions
Get
Ask
Then
Across
Your
Engaging
When we get peace in Afghanistan, we'll go to New Zealand to learn best practices for raising sheep. We'll go to Switzerland and study hydroelectric projects.
Ashraf Ghani
Best
Peace
Sheep
Projects
Study
New
Learn
Practices
Go
Get
Afghanistan
New Zealand
Zealand
Switzerland
Raising
When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.
Ashraf Ghani
Me
I Am
Tears
Talk
Equal
Another
Am
His
Afghan
Moves
Her
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