A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

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

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

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

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

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