Jalal Talabani Quotes
"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: People, Nation, Right, Self, World)
"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Fight, Freedom, Will)
"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Founding, Future, Iraq)
"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: People, Protection, Zone)
"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Reality, Thinking)
"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Cause, Justice, Past)
"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: 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
(Related: Building, Compromise, Iraq, State)
"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
(Related: Constitution, Country, Draft, Help, Security, 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
(Related: Country, Difference, Diversity, Iraq, Past, President)
"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Democracy, Open, Violence, Will)
"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Discrimination, Iraq, Will)
"All I wanted was to be a university teacher."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: University)
"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Compromise)
"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Fight)
"Every human must take responsibility for his actions."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Actions, Responsibility)
"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Thought, Expression, Freedom)
"Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Iraq)
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Rights, Justice)
"Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Military, Security, Terror)
"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Sacrifice, Courage, Army, Military, Needs)