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November 19, 2010

"We read President Karzai's interview as a call for an Afghanistan that eventually is stable, fully sovereign and self-reliant."

- DOUG LUTE,special assistant to President Obama for Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking from the NATO summit in Lisbon. Lute was reacting to Karzai's contradiction of NATO's Afghan strategy
November 05, 2009

"What we have said to President Karzai is, 'You have some competent people, and you need more of them.' "

- KAI EIDE,U.N. special representative in Afghanistan, urging for reform; the U.N. is temporarily relocating its foreign staff in Afghanistan after five workers were killed last week in an attack by militants
February 09, 2010

"We do not allow cover-ups."

- AKIO TOYODA,Toyota's president, on questions over whether the automaker routinely fixed potentially dangerous defects in new models without recalling those already on the road

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