All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.