Quotes By Muqtada Al Sadr

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

I have a red line against the Americans.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

Just because we're rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

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.

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

We are grateful to God.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

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.

The Americans were never interested in what was best for the Shiites.

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.