Iraq

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

Religion

1935–2010

"And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in."

H. R. McMaster

Music

b. 1962

"Even in the United States and in other free nations, some journalists, academics, public officials, and saddest of all young people have developed and promulgated idealized, warped views of tyrannical regimes."

"was a disaster, an unmitigated disaster. I was just so upset, even on the verge of tears. It was the antithesis of everything I had been working for and hoping for."

Mohammed Alkobaisi

b. 1970

"The real concept of morality is benefiting people and avoiding harming them."

Raid Jahid Fahmi

Politics

"We should give priority to legislation concerning social security."

"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."

Barham Salih

Politics

b. 1960

"Leave Saddam in power? So that he would be free to continue killing, free to invade his neighbors, so that he would be free to — I am sorry — develop nuclear weapons? No."

Ayad Allawi

Politics

b. 1945

"We must build a state that is in the position to defend democracy. And the institutions of this state must have a place for all Iraqis... ."

Jalal Talabani

Politics

1933–2017

"We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle."

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

Politics

b. 1940

"The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!"

"Do you expect me, after all my history as a militant and as one of the Iraqi leaders, to go to an American prison – to go to Guantanamo? I would rather die"

Abdul Rahman Arif

Politics

1916–1966

"The existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the disgrace which is Israel which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear- to wipe Israel off the map."

Nadia Murad

Social Activism

b. 1993

"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

Nouri al-Maliki

Politics

b. 1950

"Despite what we are suffering through, we haven't heard from our political partners with any support. They are not partners in facing the crisis, but they are partners in spending the wealth of Iraq."

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

Ahmed Chalabi

Politics

1944–2015

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

Hisham al-Hashimi

1973–2020

"A Pioneering man does not lie to his family, Not joking, no serious, neither in April nor anytime, the worst lie is that the man has lied to his family "a lie of hope."

Majid al-Muhandis

Music

b. 1971

"I like any man, I need tenderness and family warmth."