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

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

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

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

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.