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Quotes by Jalal Talabani

They cannot have Islamic government. In Iraq, Islamic government is impossible.
– Jalal Talabani
This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country.
– Jalal Talabani
This is the first time that Ankara has confirmed the concept of federalism publicly.
– Jalal Talabani
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
– Jalal Talabani
Time and again the U.S. has given the world its most precious resource in the cause of freedom, the lives of its most talented and courageous young men and women.
– Jalal Talabani
To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.
– Jalal Talabani
We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.
– Jalal Talabani
We are not single people coming to power as individuals. We are representing huge forces of this country.
– Jalal Talabani
We are trying to build - as soon as possible - our military forces.
– Jalal Talabani
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
– Jalal Talabani
We believe that the mission to bring about comprehensive democratic changes in Baghdad, in the sense of ending the existing dictatorship, is the task of the Iraqi opposition forces.
– Jalal Talabani
We believe that the United States should coordinate and cooperate with the Iraqi opposition, and must not entertain any idea of making changes behind the opposition's back.
– Jalal Talabani
We can depend on this militia for a while, then send them to the army or back to their jobs.
– Jalal Talabani
We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we don't have enough government forces. The people must defend themselves.
– Jalal Talabani
We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we haven't enough government forces.
– Jalal Talabani
We completely persist that the regime in Iraq should be democratic.
– Jalal Talabani
We do not have one party which got the majority. We have different groups, different parties.
– Jalal Talabani
We do not oppose the presence of Turkish troops if they are around five or six thousand soldiers.
– Jalal Talabani
We have a country which we can say is unique in the Middle East.
– Jalal Talabani
We have to renew ties with Turkey to remove the chill in relations in the past.
– Jalal Talabani
We in the Iraqi opposition have a common stand that the opposition forces, assisted by regional and international states including the United States, must undertake comprehensive democratic changes.
– Jalal Talabani
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.
– Jalal Talabani
We must not shy away from this support to eliminate the dictatorship and bring about a democratic, federal, pluralistic rule in Iraq.
– Jalal Talabani
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
– Jalal Talabani
We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity for Iraq, including the unity of the opposition.
– Jalal Talabani
We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.
– Jalal Talabani
We on our part have reaffirmed our commitment to the unity, independence, sovereignty and security of Iraq.
– Jalal Talabani
We seek foreign assistance to help us develop our security forces and to partner with us as we try to further sustainable economic growth in our shattered country.
– Jalal Talabani
We strive for the democratic rights of the Turkomen. The Iraqi opposition has ratified this policy.
– Jalal Talabani
We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.
– Jalal Talabani
We will again and again ask and work with our neighbors to assist us by controlling their borders, intercepting the transmission of funds to the terrorists and by handing over Baathist fugitives.
– Jalal Talabani
We wish to strengthen our ties with Turkey on the basis of constructive and prudent dialogue and mutual respect.
– Jalal Talabani
We, in turn, will work with our neighbors to ensure that Iraq is never again a haven for terrorists.
– Jalal Talabani
We've done our best to dispel Ankara's concerns over Kurdish independence movements.
– Jalal Talabani
What happened during dictatorship must not happen again, and we should do whatever it takes to prevent any of the crimes that happened before from happening again.
– Jalal Talabani
What I stated was that the Kurdish people are ready to welcome American forces in order to protect the Kurdish people in the region.
– Jalal Talabani
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
– Jalal Talabani