Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

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

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

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

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

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.

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