I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit love and gratitude from all Iraqis and from its plains, mountains, skies and waters. You are good sons of this country. You have offered to the country great men who have averted harm from the country and paved its way to glory and greatness.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.