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The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran.

The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution

There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.