I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

Do not betray the people.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years