We still need time to mature politically. It will take time.

They still want to rule us and they think we are not their equals. They want the Kurds to be farmers, the Shiites to be civil servants and lower-ranking army soldiers and policemen, while they rule.

All the talk about civil war is meaningless. We live in a homogenous society despite everything that's being said and done. When I take a seat in the service taxi that brings me here from home every morning, do I turn to the guy seated next to me and ask him, 'are you Sunni or Shiite?' I never asked my wife before I married her whether she was Sunni or Shiite.

People are worried sick. Death now comes on very, very short notice.

Since (U.S.-led troops) came into Iraq, we get nothing. Three years have passed by for the Iraqi people and they are still suffering psychologically … and economically.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.