Explore more quotes by Jalal Talabani

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

Sacrifice, Courage, Army, Military

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

Thought, Expression, Freedom

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

Independence, Self

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

Fight, Freedom, Will

"Every human must take responsibility for his actions."

Action, Actions, Responsibility

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

Founding, Future, Iraq

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

People, Protection, Zone

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

Building, Compromise, Iraq, State

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

People, Nation, Right, Self

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

Cause, Justice, Past

Exlpore more Independence quotes

"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Independence, Laws, May, Solitude

"Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners."

Ken Auletta, American Journalist

Independence, Corporate, Journalism

"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."

Ken Auletta, American Journalist

Independence, Teamwork

"I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top."

Barry Bonds, American Athlete

Independence, Lonely

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Independence, Minority, Opinion

"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."

Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician

Independence, Russia, States, United, Will

"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."

William Cobbett, English Politician

Independence, Impossibility, Poor

"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

Edward Dahlberg, American Novelist

Independence, Suffering

"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Italian Poet

Independence, Opinions

"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."

Gerald R. Ford, American President

Independence, Approval, Children, First, Future