Jalal Talabani Men Quotations

We hope that by the end of 2006, our security forces are up to the level of taking responsibility from many American troops, with complete agreement with Americans,

All Iraqis will have the right to participate in the government and to ask for their own demands, and this will help to reshape Iraq on a base of national unity.

We are in desperate need of your experience, investment and your moral support for the effort to fight terrorism.

We reached agreement today for parliament to open on March 16.

They cannot have Islamic government. In Iraq, Islamic government is impossible.

We will never forget the Iranian government and people's help to Iraq, and we hope our relations improve in all areas,

selected by Iraq's Transitional National Assembly to lead the nation's democratically elected government in over 50 years.

Saddam Hussein committed many crimes, the most important of which are the mass graves that hold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis including children, women, the elderly and men who were buried without a trial.

I am here to further develop the history-honored relations between the two countries. I also come to thank the Iranian government and nation for their sincere help to Iraq,

A timetable will help the terrorists, will encourage them that they could defeat a superpower of the world and Iraqi people, ... We don't want to do anything without the agreement with the Americans because we don't want to give any signal to the terrorists that our will to defeat them is weakened.

There is no real Arab empathy with the hundreds of women and children in Iraq killed on a daily basis at the hands of criminal terrorists who come from the Arab countries -- These criminals and executioners, who consider the Shiites -- who constitute the majority in Iraq -- to be infidels, and consider the Kurds - the second largest nationality in Iraq-to be traitors, are glorified by the Arab press.

We on our part have reaffirmed our commitment to the unity, independence, sovereignty and security of Iraq.

But those who are pro-Saddam are very difficult to reach agreement with, because they are still dreaming to bring back the dictatorship, which is of course refused by the big majority of the Iraqi people.

the government should take measures for an honest investigation to determine how failures doubled the casualties.

We are not living in a country where a party with a two-vote majority in Parliament can rule - this is not Iraq. If the Shiites and Kurds will cooperate, there will be a majority, but this is not right, and not the correct way to rule the country.

The Kurdish Coalition will not take part in the coming government unless the Iraqi List takes part in it.

I have good news for the Iraqi people on this historic day. An agreement has been reached on amendments to the draft constitution,

In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism.

The parliament session has been delayed as the leaders are still in the meeting,

The central government will be for all where everyone will participate and offer their services according to their abilities and energy.

Your soldiers are in my country because of your commitment to democracy,

We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we haven't enough government forces.

The main reason thousands of women didn't become candidates is that they can't afford the financial expenses,

It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran.

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

I think, we will be able at the end of this month to replace many units from the allied forces, but we must have a common agreement between your government and our government for the timetable of the removal forces.

We want a prime minister who can gather all the political blocs around him, so that the government would be one of national unity.

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.

The first thing we are thinking of doing after forming a national unity government is to build stability and security and to terminate terrorism.