If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.