Jalal Talabani Quotes
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.
Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
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 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 reconciliation.
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution
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 this we cannot change the regime.
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
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.
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.
Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
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 brought him by rigging the elections.
A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.
It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.
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 constitution.
It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
