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

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.

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

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

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

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.