The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

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

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

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

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you cant find in an army without morale.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.