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.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.