As a father, I have serious concerns about what life will be like for my kids, if I'm even here. Am I scared of the death threats, and people who want to kill me and the attacks against me, etc? Yeah, I am. Of course, I am. I wouldn't be human if I wasn't. But I am terrified for the entire next generation of this country, and its history, its culture, its identity – it's all under attack.

I would rather have my children die, than live in disgrace, jeered at. My children stand no chance in Germany after the war.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Everyone wants to kill me! The Americans want to kill me, the Shiites want to kill me, the Kurds want to kill me and even the insurgents. . . . Every night a different car passes by my house.

I must admit, my children, my very dear children, that I am hurt by the situation in our country. I am hurt by what is becoming of my country.

I mean, we desperately want to get those American hostages out. But if you saw those kids in the hands of those terrorists, like, with a mom heart, it made me sick to my stomach for all those parents having to see their children in those terrorist hands. So, of course, we want them out.

I'm getting out to mind my own fucking business, from somewhere else, and so I'm leaving this shitty country, of which I'm sickened.

(Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): "They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them."

Today, I will have to tell my children, along with all the children of Palestinian Arab towns in the country, that the state has declared that it does not want us here. ... It has passed a law of and told us that we will always be .

Send lawyers, guns and money. Dad, get me out of this!

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

I hope all the people who have problems in their countries can get out. I support people who want to get out if they have dreams, if they want to protect their kids.

We are giving our children over to our enemies and it’s time we stop doing it.

“I gotta tell you, we should just plain get out - it’s their country, they're asking us to leave, and we insist on staying there! And why not get out?” — On the Iraq War. Speech.