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

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

All I wanted was to be a university teacher..

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

We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation….

It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational ….

No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the consti….

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have thi….

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another..

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

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

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

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

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..

I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconci….