I think that the majority of Iraqi people, including some Arab Sunnis, will vote for ‘yes’ in the referendum.

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

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

he was able to take important confessions from Saddam Hussein and he has signed these confessions and there is video and audio for these confessions.

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 assured the pope that in Iraq every freedom will be guaranteed to Christians,

There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators.

If there would be a necessity, why not? The Americans have in many places military bases.

We have decided to support the draft and agreed to some changes which we think necessary for the country’s ties with the Arab League, as Iraq is a founding member in the AL,

We will set no timetable for withdrawal, Mr. President. A timetable will help the terrorists, will encourage them that they could defeat the superpower of the world and the Iraqi people,

We don’t want British forces forever in Iraq. Within one year, I think at the end of 2006, Iraqi troops will be ready to replace British forces in the south.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

We need to unite and maintain peace as this incident can divert Iraq from the constitution to violence,

If those who call themselves the Iraqi resistance desired to contact me, I would welcome them. I would not refuse to meet any Iraqi who wants to meet me. But of course that does not...

I think the future of Iraq will be democratic, pluralistic and federal. After the toppling of the regime there will be a democratic system that will be fair for all its citizens.

We do not oppose the presence of Turkish troops if they are around five or six thousand soldiers.

The regional plots that pushed some Kurdish parties against other Kurdish parties are about to come to an end.

I think that there is no justification or excuse for the Sunnis to boycott. We have met all their demands and accepted all their suggestions. Now it is their national duty to take part in...

If he had fallen into our hands during the war we were waging then we could have eliminated him, but now we have to put him on trial.

What do you want us to do, go kiss them?

More than 50 bodies have been brought out from the Tigris, and we have the full names of those who were killed and those criminals who committed these crimes.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

The victory of the new Iraq will be the triumph of freedom over hate, of decency over intolerance.

It is virtually impossible to demand the withdrawal of allied forces from Iraq. We will do so when the Iraqi army is established.

I think there is a kind of agreement among all of us that Islam must be the religion of the state, that the Islamic identity of Iraqi people must be respected, and that Islam will...

The meetings are still going on and we have gone forward, … There is a meeting today and another meeting tomorrow, and God willing we will finish the job tomorrow.

We do not have one party which got the majority. We have different groups, different parties.

We should not be hasty regarding the issues and the constitution should not be born crippled, … We are keen to have an early constitution, but the constitution should be completed in all of its...

We honor the sacrifices the United States has made.

It is a historic day. We have closed a sad chapter in the history of the Kurdish people.

The president is representing the sovereignty of Iraq. He has the right to oversee all common issues of Iraq.

Our commitment to human rights, primarily of the individual, but also of our diverse ethnic and religious heritage for which we suffered, must be absolute.

Efforts have been made to reach agreements, but this is a historic issue that needs more study, … We need more time.

I want to congratulate our people who struggled against dictatorship for democracy and freedom, … This constitution is a first of its kind, written by representatives of important Iraqi factions.

The terrible crime against the pilgrims is yet another proof of the brutality of those terrorists who are launching a genocidal war against the Iraqi people.

It is not Iran, it cannot be an Islamic society.

I think we will be able to be the model of democracy and prosperity in the Middle East,

We have accepted the amendments which we think necessary for the Islamic and Arab world,

Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack or another severe storm? That’s a very important question and it’s in our national interest that we find out exactly what went on so we can...

We cannot have any laws not in keeping with the tenets of Islam and of democracy.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

could lead to the victory of the terrorists in Iraq and create grave threats to the region, the United States and the civilized world.

First of all, elections were held in Iraq and 8.5 million Iraqis participated in them.

Iraq has regained its independence and held democratic elections for the first time in its history, in order to elect a National Iraqi committee.

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...

I’m proud of having Turkey and Iran as neighbors.

I wish that all Iraqi Arabs, Kurds and others vote ‘Yes’ to the draft constitution which represents their ambition to build a democratic, federal, united and independent state,

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

Let me be frank. Our security forces are not so well trained that they can face this new kind of war,

All Iraqis from Shiites, Sunnis, Arabs and Kurds are here,