Quotes by Jalal Talabani

About Jalal Talabani:

Jalal Talabani is a leading Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He is known as "Mam Jalal" meaning "uncle Jalal" among Kurdish people.
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I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

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

Jalal Talabani

Author Bio

  • NameJalal Talabani
  • Description6th President of Iraq
  • BornNovember 12, 1933
  • CountryIraq
  • ProfessionPolitician; Jurist
  • AwardsBruno Kreisky Award