Jalal Talabani Professions : President of Iraq Born : November 12, 1933 Browse All Authors Top 43 quotes by Jalal Talabani Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it. Jalal Talabani gratitude military people Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. Jalal Talabani wishful-thinking reality thinking The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world. Jalal Talabani determination self people Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests. Jalal Talabani trust interest lovers Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. Jalal Talabani individual rights justice Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. Jalal Talabani forgiving democracy fighting My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. Jalal Talabani doors love peace As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. Jalal Talabani iraq country past I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation. Jalal Talabani progress iraq president The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people. Jalal Talabani voice government real 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 war lying children The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. Jalal Talabani welcome protection people I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions on us, without waging a war. How would we survive under those circumstances? Jalal Talabani iraq independent war Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible. Jalal Talabani struggle helping country The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny. Jalal Talabani dictator iraq darkness Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. Jalal Talabani soil iraq different I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. Jalal Talabani freedom-of-expression freedom-of-thought expression Every human must take responsibility for his actions. Jalal Talabani taking-responsibility responsibility action Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. Jalal Talabani determination self mean We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that. Jalal Talabani economic fighting kind
