Jalal Talabani National Quotations

We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity for Iraq, including the unity of the opposition.

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

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

We want a prime minister who can gather all the political blocs around him, so that the government would be one of national unity.

selected by Iraq's Transitional National Assembly to lead the nation's democratically elected government in over 50 years.

Problems of lack of security, electricity and water persist and I hope they will be areas of priority for the new government, which we hope will be one of national unity.

Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack or another severe storm? That's a very important question and it's in our national interest that we find out exactly what went on so we can better respond,

The United States of America is not the lawyer of the Kurdish people, it is a big state, with its own policy, and it has its own national interest.

There must be consensus over the constitution as a beginning for national reconciliation,

The big majority of it has been agreed but three articles remain, ... Now we will give a chance to members of the national assembly to look at it and I hope within three days these problems will be solved.

All Iraqis will have the right to participate in the government and to ask for their own demands, and this will help to reshape Iraq on a base of national unity.

The first thing we are thinking of doing after forming a national unity government is to build stability and security and to terminate terrorism.