All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

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

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators.

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

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