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

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

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.

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.

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

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