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Jalal Talabani
Iraqi
Politician
About the author
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Right
#People
#World
#Self
#Nation
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Will
#Freedom
#Fight
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Future
#Iraq
#Founding
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#People
#Protection
#Zone
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Thinking
#Reality
The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Past
#Cause
#Justice
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Independence
#Self
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Building
#State
#Iraq
#Compromise
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Security
#Country
#Draft
#Help
#Constitution
#Struggle
#Terrorism
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Past
#President
#Country
#Difference
#Iraq
#Diversity
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Will
#Democracy
#Open
#Violence
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Will
#Iraq
#Discrimination
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#University
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Compromise
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Fight
Every human must take responsibility for his actions.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Responsibility
#Actions
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Thought
#Freedom
#Expression
Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Iraq
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Justice
#Rights
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Security
#Terror
#Military
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#Sacrifice
#Needs
#Military
#Courage
#Army
Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.
Jalal Talabani,
Iraqi
Politician
#People
#American
#Gratitude