“All I wanted was to be a university teacher.”

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

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

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

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

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

“All I wanted was to be a university teacher.”