"The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people."

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Source : "Iraqi Kurds Hope Vote Legitimizes Leadership". Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 1992.

Jalal Talabani

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“Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.”
“Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!”
“As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.”
“It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.”
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the ***** and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.”
“Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.”
“I do like choral music a lot, the voice is a pretty strong instrument - out of all the instruments, it's the most intimate. There's nothing you can do about it, it just feels so good when you hear a bunch of voices sing together.”

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