If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
— Muqtada al Sadr
All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.
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.
Divisiveness is not good for the people.
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.
Everything that happens is determined by God.
I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.
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.