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Hamid Karzai
President of Afghanistan
When I was in Tehran, visiting Iran officially, we were in a kind of cultural event. Some young Afghans who are students in Iran approached me -- boys and girls -- they wanted to see me. And I said, "All right." It was about five in the afternoon, and I said, "I can see you at 9:30 today in my residence," and the residence was far away from the city, and students are always poor, but they came there. They came to that residence. The Iranian foreign minister came, and he was there until about 11 o'clock. So by 11:30, I managed to meet that group of young Afghan students, boys and girls. When they came, I turned to the girls, and I said, "I'm sorry, ladies, that I could not meet you at the time that I promised, and it's so late at night, and you have to go back. I don't know how far you'll have to go back." There was a girl, 15 or 16 years of age, and she spoke. She said, "Oh, no, no, Mr. Chairman. We don't mind. We could wait for days and days for you to talk to us, because the country has regained respect, because the country has respect now." And I was shocked to hear that from a girl that was probably born in Iran, because most people that left Afghanistan left about 25 years ago. She must have been born in Iran and raised in Iran. She was aware of so much of her Afghan identity. She was only happy that the country had regained respect and dignity. So this quest for dignity, this quest for respect, this quest for the identity of Afghanistan is so strong in Afghans that they will not allow this country to go back the way it was.
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Hamid Karzai
President of Afghanistan
Sometimes when I have functions to attend in the city, or I go to a hotel to attend a function, or this or that, or I go to lunch in an electricity project or something, and I come back, and I see children going to school. At about 11 o'clock they return from school, or earlier, if I have to go at 7 o'clock, they go to school. It's the best sight for me. I spend the whole day very happy that day when I see the Afghan children going to school. It's remarkable, and I especially like it when they recognize me, and they wave, and they say hello, and they run up to the car. It's wonderful. It's just wonderful. The sight of Afghan children going to school is the most pleasing thing that I can have.
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Hamid Karzai
President of Afghanistan
This man said, "Hamid, are these Americans?" He said, "Tell them that I have lost eight of my children at one of your accidental bombs, but I don't care. Even if I lost more of my people, of my children, I wouldn't care; I would accept it because you are here to liberate Afghanistan." Now that remark, for me, for a man to accept the loss of his grandchildren and say that he is willing to accept more losses because the country is going to be liberated, was the highest form of legitimacy in the endeavor, in the struggle against terrorism in Afghanistan, that the Afghan people wanted to be liberated by whatever means, even if they lost their families.
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Jeong Kim
President of Bell Labs
I saw what Steve Wozniak was doing at that time, the development of Apple Computers, and I was really fascinated by it. As a matter of fact, I thought that will change the world, and I wanted to build my own computer. I wasn't sure that I could, but I was really fascinated and dreamed of doing something like that. But you know, I didn't have time to do anything, I just dreamed. But when I went to college, you know, for those things you've got a lot more time, because I got a scholarship. So, I didn't have immediate worry as far as feeding myself.
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Jeong Kim
President of Bell Labs
I wanted to be a major player, even when I was thinking about computers and Steve Jobs and what he was doing, and Bill Gates wasn't really moving at that time. Steve Jobs was really making headway. I thought, "If he could do it, why can't I do it?" So, in some ways, I feel that if you can put together a good group of people -- it's not just one person -- and work together, you can create a world class organization, and I thought I could do that.
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James V. Kimsey
Founding Chairman,
America Online
I think, among all the things that happened during that year, it gave me an opportunity to live in a village with Vietnamese people, speak the language, get to know the people as a people, understand the nature of that conflict. And, despite the sometimes horrible incidences that occurred, I look back on that year particularly as a real growth year for myself. That I was responsible for about 100,000 square miles and 100,000 people. And, irrespective of what our policy was towards those people, I felt it was my job to protect them. And, in the process I got to know them. We built an orphanage which still exists.
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James V. Kimsey
Founding Chairman,
America Online
The potential for the Vietnamese people being one of our best allies in that part of the world is enormous. And, I think we're myopic not to take advantage of it. I think it's in both the Vietnamese and our best interest. Some would say less in the Vietnamese best interest because they have a very fragile and intricate social architecture that reveres their elders and has a reverence also for education. And, some think that Hollywood is now going to accomplish in Vietnam what our military failed to accomplish 30 years ago.
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