Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
- Jalal Talabani
Rights, Individual, Major, Vindication
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
- Jalal Talabani
Army, Find, Needs, Coup
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
- Jalal Talabani
Through, Rather, Iraq, Compromise
The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
- Jalal Talabani
Past, Crimes, Which, Rectify
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
- Jalal Talabani
Survive, Unless, Unlike, Dictatorships
Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.
- Jalal Talabani
Gratitude, Never, Should, Immense
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
Past, Country, In The Past, Denied
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
- Jalal Talabani
Security, Current, Terror, Suitable
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
- Jalal Talabani
Future, Elected, Assembly, Freely
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
- Jalal Talabani
Freedom, Expression, Been, Trampled
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
- Jalal Talabani
Will, Ethnic, Among, Discrimination
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
- Jalal Talabani
Door, Will, Always, Accommodation
Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
- Jalal Talabani
Forces, Which, Iraq, Occupied
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
- Jalal Talabani
Autonomy, Could, Confederacy, Federal
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
- Jalal Talabani
Nor, Equivalent, Concession, Compromise
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
Constitution, Country, Draft
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
- Jalal Talabani
Zone, Kurdish, Regime, Welcome
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
- Jalal Talabani
World, Other, Like, Kurdish
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
- Jalal Talabani
Reality, Another, One Thing, Wishful
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
- Jalal Talabani
Freedom, Will, Provide, Iraqis
Every human must take responsibility for his actions.
- Jalal Talabani
Responsibility, Take, His, Actions
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