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All Quotes by author - Jalal Talabani

" All I wanted was to be a university teacher. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Every human must take responsibility for his actions. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. "

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