All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.