Quotes By Muqtada Al Sadr

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

I have a red line against the Americans.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are grateful to God.

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.

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

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

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

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

Do not betray the people.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?