It would be useful to lay down an internationally agreed set of goals, benchmarks.

We have more Afghan police, more Afghan army, more American army, more international forces. I believe we will have a secure elections.

Don't look only at the foreigner.

What you have here is already so much better.

There are people who will try to kill candidates and who will try to stop the election, ... They will fail. They have absolutely no chance of stopping this election.

I think this is a [security] situation that will probably be difficult for some time.

We have to keep a force that's agile enough to back up NATO.

Pakistan is doing a lot more than they were doing, ... They have put thousands of troops on the border. ... I think this is a considerable effort. It is going in the right direction.

I don't think that any election is perfect, ... historic milestone in Afghan history.