Jalal Talabani Quotes
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My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
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I am very, very sorry for the lives lost in Iraq. I think it was a very noble job that your army and your people did in Iraq.
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We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
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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?
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The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.
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This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
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All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
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Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
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I'm glad to tell you Mr President that our relations with our neighbors is improved very well with Turkey, with Syria, with Iran with the Arab countries. The relation is normal now and we have no problem with any of those countries. In contrary, many many new ambassadors are coming to our country from Arab countries.
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
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Some Shi'ites are asking that Islam be the only source of laws, which means turning Iraq into an Islamic regime, and that is unacceptable. We accept that the religion of Iraq is Islam, and we must respect Islam and the Islamic identity of Iraqi people. But we think Islam should only be one source of the Iraqi laws.
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I am informing you of our displeasure over the arrest of the Iranian civilian official without consulting the government of Kurdistan. That is a humiliation for the regional administration. You ignored our authority. I ask for his immediate release in order to maintain healthy relations between Iran and Kurdistan and for the prosperity of Kurdistan.
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No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.
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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.