Jalal Talabani

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

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

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.