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Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.