Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brou….

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

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..

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

It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran..

Every human must take responsibility for his actions..

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

We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey ….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctio….

Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, t….

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

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

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