Iraqi Politician Quotes

Saddam Hussein

Faisal I of Iraq

Jalal Talabani

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Nouri al-Maliki

Tariq Aziz

Massoud Barzani

We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.... We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.

Faisal I of Iraq

The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.… The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins!

The brutal regime of the dictator fell … the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

I am against driving Israel into the sea. This policy is wrong, illogical, and unreasonable. Why annihilate a people?

Massoud Barzani

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

It is imperative that there is intervention into our dire situation and treatment... We hope that you will help us. We have been in prison for a long time and we have been cut from our families. No contacts, no phones, no letters. Even the parcels sent to us by our families are not given to us. We need a fair treatment, a fair investigation and finally a fair trial. Please help us

We pray to God almighty to give us strength so we can meet the ambitious goals of our people, who have suffered a lot.

Nouri al-Maliki

Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State's war alone. Rather, it is the Muslims' war altogether. It is the war of every Muslim in every place, and the Islamic State is merely the spearhead in this war. It is but the war of the people of faith against the people of disbelief.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

We need to stop the flow of suicide bombers, we need to stop the fatwas (religious edicts) coming from Saudis to justify the killings of innocent Iraqis.

Mowaffak Rubaie

Iran seeks to uproot the sons of Sunnis in Baghdad and make Iraq a village of Iran.

Adnan al-Dulaimi

I tell the Iranians that if they hear from people here or there that pictures of Ayatollah Khamenei are hung in Iraqi homes, it is a lie.

Iyad Jamal Al-Din

If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

Al Qaeda is a virus and it is spreading. If we fail to stop it, we will pay a very heavy price.