Jalal Talabani

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

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

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

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.