Popularity: 0
Vote:   | A continued and consistent U.N. engagement, which bolsters the new Iraq, will convince Iraqis to put aside their qualms about an organization that many of them identify with the previous Baathist regime. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | After that we need a government with all parties, with Allawi, and our brother Sunnis. We insist all Iraqis have a role. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | All I wanted was to be a university teacher. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | All Iraqis will have the right to participate in the government and to ask for their own demands, and this will help to reshape Iraq on a base of national unity. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | All such foreign-armed groups in Iraq must be neutralized and rendered harmless in a manner that is just and legal. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | All the Iraqi groups got support and help from Syria. And now we have reached the position of rule, Syria should continue its support of these groups, the current ruling groups in Iraq that are friendly to Syria. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | And third, it proves for the Kurds that their struggle ended in a way that they can say the blood of their martyrs was not in vain. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | But I am feeling as Iraqi, and my duty is to work as an Iraqi for all Iraqis regardless of their nationalities. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | But those who are pro-Saddam are very difficult to reach agreement with, because they are still dreaming to bring back the dictatorship, which is of course refused by the big majority of the Iraqi people. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | But while the new Iraq is open to all, there must be no underestimating our determination to vanquish terrorism. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | But, we must understand this reality - the leadership of any people is responsible for their own policy, and must not put responsibility on the shoulders of others. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Currently the international and regional situation does not permit for the foundation of an independent Kurdish state in north of Iraq. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Every human must take responsibility for his actions. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | First of all, elections were held in Iraq and 8.5 million Iraqis participated in them. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | First of all, I would like to say, that all those who carry out suicide operations are not Iraqis. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | First of all, I would like to state that the Kurdistan Democratic Party is an old party with great history, and so is the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | First, we insist on democracy, they on dictatorship. Then there is the matter of the continuous ethnic cleansing policy in the Kurdish areas under the control of the Iraqi government. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | For me, I hope to continue to the end, my struggle and life, to see a democratic, federative, united, prosperous Iraq, that Iraqi people will live in peace and prosperity, and Iraq will use its huge wealth for the benefit of the Iraqi people. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | However, there is a reality that must not be forgotten: the Kurdish people and the pesh merga have a long history of struggle and its irrational to deprive them of their weapons. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I always believed that we must depend on ourself, we must prepare our plans according to our forces, our relation with the army and with other groups. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | I believe that the reaction should be one of public support and public welcome. Even the inhabitants complained and are annoyed by the delinquent operations. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I believe that we are about to face a new strategy of the neighboring countries, especially by the brothers who support Iraq and the Iraqi people. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I consider myself the president of Kurds, Arabs, Turcomans, Christians, Yazidis, Sabiis, Muslims, Shiites, Sunnis - all Iraqis. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I don't think that Kurds will abandon their aim of establishing an independent Kurdish state. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I expected that one day when Iraq becomes a country where citizens are equal that a Kurd would be a president, and why not? |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I swore to respect the Iraqi democratic regime and the Iraqi laws. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I thank Turkish officials for their decision not to send troops to Iraq. Turkey is a friendly country, and I want a new page to be opened between us. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I think that Zarqawi appears isolated and hated by Iraqis and I would not rule out his capture any second, but I cannot guess where or when. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I think the Iraqi Liberation Act, is useful, very important, it's for the first time assuring Iraqi people that America wants to end dictatorship and replace it with a democratic system. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I think there is a kind of agreement among all of us that Islam must be the religion of the state, that the Islamic identity of Iraqi people must be respected, and that Islam will be one source of the laws in the country. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I think there is an exaggeration about the strength of Islamist movements here. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I think we are in great need to have American and other allied forces in Iraq until we will be able to rebuild our military forces, rebuild our security forces. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I want to be clear on the subject of Syrian relations. All of us in the governing council are friends of Syria. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I will try my best to convince my colleagues that we must have a comprehensive policy towards those who are fighting the regime. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I'm proud of having Turkey and Iran as neighbors. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | If the court sentences Saddam Hussein to death, the verdict will be carried out. But I would have no other legal choice but to make myself absent so my two deputies would take the decision they wish. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | In any place in the world, when the country is facing difficulties, beside the army, the people depended on the militias and the partisan groups. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | In Iraq, it is impossible, because you have Kurds, Arabs, Shia, Sunni, Christians - such a kind of mosaic society. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and end this terrorism. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Indeed, we do not seek to export our political ideas or experiences, a practice that has too often led to instability in the Middle East. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Iraq has regained its independence and held democratic elections for the first time in its history, in order to elect a National Iraqi committee. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It is not Iran, it cannot be an Islamic society. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | It is virtually impossible to demand the withdrawal of allied forces from Iraq. We will do so when the Iraqi army is established. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It would be good if these people were provided with electricity, water and independence, and the opportunity to speak their mother tongues and educate their children. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | My reply was that the Kurdish people welcome the presence of American forces in Kurdistan in order to defend the freedom they enjoy and to prevent being attacked with weapons of mass destruction. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | My struggle was only for democracy in Iraq and for Kurdish rights, sometimes in the shape of autonomy, sometimes of federation in the framework of a democratic Iraq. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | My two partners in the presidency, the government, the House, all of them are for sentencing Saddam Hussein to death before the court will decide. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Nor are the terrorists by any stretch of the imagination the repressed or the disadvantaged. They chose violence despite consistent exhortations to contribute to the new Iraq. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Now we are living in a country with a very democratic climate. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Now, the time has come for the rest of the world to recognize that a federal, democratic Iraq that can defend itself against terrorism is a goal worthy of broad international support. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Of course, some opposition members who failed in the elections, or some who did not take part in the elections must have something to say. They cannot admit the facts and the realities, but these are the facts and the realities. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | On the other hand, we as Iraqi Kurds, we envision our interests within a unified democratic Iraq, in which we contribute to the government in Baghdad. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Our commitment to human rights, primarily of the individual, but also of our diverse ethnic and religious heritage for which we suffered, must be absolute. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Our relation with Turkey is normal and good. Our relations are good with Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Our relations were good with Jordan during the late King Hussein's time. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Our Sunni Arabs brothers made a big mistake when they boycotted the elections. But they are an important group and we cannot ignore them and therefore they must take part in the democratic process. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Rather, we ask that the uniqueness of the Iraqi experience be recognized and our newly restored sovereignty respected. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Saddam Hussein committed many crimes, the most important of which are the mass graves that hold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis including children, women, the elderly and men who were buried without a trial. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | Saddam Hussein's word, for example, was more important than the law. If he issued a decree and the law was against him, the law had to go, not his word. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Slaying terrorism, and the extremist nationalism and perversion of religion that breeds it, will require our greatest effort, both as Iraqis and as new members of the alliance of democracies. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | That is why I proposed, in my first speech as head of state, an amnesty for those who have been led astray by terrorism. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The 90% of the Turkomen live in areas under Iraqi rule. How come we never hear of any complaint from Turkey about their conditions under the oppressive dictatorial regime? |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | The Arab world must understand and recognise the reality of Iraq. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The assistance provided by the U.N. during the recent elections was invaluable and an important step toward the return of this organization to Iraq. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The central government will be for all where everyone will participate and offer their services according to their abilities and energy. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | The choice of peace or war lies not with the Iraqis who ignored terrorism and intimidation to vote in their millions, the Iraqis to whom I am accountable. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | The first thing we are thinking of doing after forming a national unity government is to build stability and security and to terminate terrorism. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The Kurdish people want American presence, not only as deterrent against possible Iraqi attacks but also because there are terrorist organizations such as the Ansar Al-Islam and others, which constitute a danger to the Kurdish people. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The president is representing the sovereignty of Iraq. He has the right to oversee all common issues of Iraq. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The rectification of past crimes and the binding up of the many wounds inflicted upon us by the Baathist regime -- these are matters for Iraqis alone. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The regional plots that pushed some Kurdish parties against other Kurdish parties are about to come to an end. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | The Turkomen who reside in Kurdistan region fully enjoy their democratic rights. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The United States of America is not the lawyer of the Kurdish people, it is a big state, with its own policy, and it has its own national interest. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The victory of the new Iraq will be the triumph of freedom over hate, of decency over intolerance. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The Zarqawi group is trying to sow dissension and civil war but they will not succeed. I don't fear civil war in Iraq. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | There is no basis for the phantom claims that the Kurds intend to form their own independent state. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Therefore, it is right to work for ending this regime whose hands are red with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | These criminals who come from abroad have declared a war of extermination or destruction on Iraq. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | They are Iraqi and American forces, and they perform their mission, the mission of cleaning the area from terrorists. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | They cannot have Islamic government. In Iraq, Islamic government is impossible. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | This is the first time that Ankara has confirmed the concept of federalism publicly. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. |
Popularity: 8
Vote: | Time and again the U.S. has given the world its most precious resource in the cause of freedom, the lives of its most talented and courageous young men and women. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | We are not single people coming to power as individuals. We are representing huge forces of this country. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We are trying to build - as soon as possible - our military forces. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We believe that the mission to bring about comprehensive democratic changes in Baghdad, in the sense of ending the existing dictatorship, is the task of the Iraqi opposition forces. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | We believe that the United States should coordinate and cooperate with the Iraqi opposition, and must not entertain any idea of making changes behind the opposition's back. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We can depend on this militia for a while, then send them to the army or back to their jobs. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we don't have enough government forces. The people must defend themselves. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we haven't enough government forces. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | We completely persist that the regime in Iraq should be democratic. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | We do not have one party which got the majority. We have different groups, different parties. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We do not oppose the presence of Turkish troops if they are around five or six thousand soldiers. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | We have a country which we can say is unique in the Middle East. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We have to renew ties with Turkey to remove the chill in relations in the past. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | We in the Iraqi opposition have a common stand that the opposition forces, assisted by regional and international states including the United States, must undertake comprehensive democratic changes. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | We must not shy away from this support to eliminate the dictatorship and bring about a democratic, federal, pluralistic rule in Iraq. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity for Iraq, including the unity of the opposition. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | We on our part have reaffirmed our commitment to the unity, independence, sovereignty and security of Iraq. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We seek foreign assistance to help us develop our security forces and to partner with us as we try to further sustainable economic growth in our shattered country. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | We strive for the democratic rights of the Turkomen. The Iraqi opposition has ratified this policy. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We will again and again ask and work with our neighbors to assist us by controlling their borders, intercepting the transmission of funds to the terrorists and by handing over Baathist fugitives. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | We wish to strengthen our ties with Turkey on the basis of constructive and prudent dialogue and mutual respect. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We, in turn, will work with our neighbors to ensure that Iraq is never again a haven for terrorists. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We've done our best to dispel Ankara's concerns over Kurdish independence movements. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | What happened during dictatorship must not happen again, and we should do whatever it takes to prevent any of the crimes that happened before from happening again. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | What I stated was that the Kurdish people are ready to welcome American forces in order to protect the Kurdish people in the region. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. |