Jalal Talabani Quotes

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

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

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

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

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

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.

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

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

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