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

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

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

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

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

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

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.