Haider al-Abadi Quotes

Unification or Death

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

Brothers, we must be one as the English are, or we shall soon all be destroyed.

Scattered Slavs, let us be a united whole, and no longer mere fragments. Let us be all or naught.

It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They are not currently fighting together.

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

I will open an era of grand national unity.

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

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.

I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

We need a common enemy to unite us.

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

Europe has just too many countries who have hated each other for too long to pull it apart and very little to hold it together.

In a highly diverse and fragmented society like Iraq, the military...is one of the few national institutions that stresses national unity as an important principle. Tot ear apart the army in the war’s aftermath could lead to the destruction of one of the only forces for unity within the society.

The strength of all free peoples lies in unity; their danger, in discord

We are one people… our enemies made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affection binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength.