Muqtada al-Sadr

“I call on all Iraqis to not be dragged into a sectarian war.”

“I am not with the American people, and I am not against the American people. I am with the Iraqi people.”

“We don't need a constitution. We have the Quran.”

“We consider all the occupiers of Iraq to be our enemies, and we will confront them with all the means that are available to us.”

“Iraq is for the Iraqis, and we do not want it to be an arena for settling scores for any external party.”

“We want to form a government of technocrats, away from the corrupt.”

“The resistance is an honor and I am the first of the resistance fighters.”

“No, no to America, no, no to Israel, no, no to the devil.”

“I am for the liberation of Iraq. I am for the liberation of the Iraqi people.”

“Disbanding the Mahdi Army is a very, very difficult step.”

“We are with the Iraqi government as long as it is with the people.”

“The corrupt must not return, not in this government or any future government.”