 As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. |
| Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples. |
| My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. |
| Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible. |
| The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world. |
| A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. |
| We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq. |
| This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. |
| I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. |
| The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past. |
| Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. |
| We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that. |
| 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. |
| Every human must take responsibility for his actions. |
| The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. |
| Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. |
| 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. |
| Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. |
