Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

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

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.