A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

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

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

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

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.