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"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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