If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

More Quotes by Lakhdar Brahimi

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.