Famous Quotes & Sayings

This Russian proposal to Iran has never existed.

We perfectly realize that under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran has every right for enrichment,

Dick Cheney

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Alan Dershowitz

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

Our Iranian partners should come here in the near future, and talks will take place constantly.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was able to slip into Afghanistan for a week. However, I had to go back into Iran to produce my film, shot about two kilometers from the border.

Howard Berman

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

I think the Iranians are willing to live with ... a possible referral to the Security Council.

People know the Iranian situation will stay in the market for quite some time.

Jacques Chirac

I was profoundly shocked by the statements of the Iranian president, which are totally senseless and irresponsible,

will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Javier Solana

We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets.

Ali Larijani

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

Ali Larijani

The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.

Ali Larijani

Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.

Ali Larijani

If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.

Alexander Haig

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

Adam Schiff

Аt the end of the day, unless Iran and Russia want to have a rump Allawite state and a rump Sunni state, and a Kurdish state, then they're going to have to come to the table and bring about an end to this regime.

Hans Blix

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

Abbas Kiarostami

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

Abbas Kiarostami

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

Hassan Rouhani

When it comes to nuclear technology, the Iranian people are very sensitive. It is a part of our national pride, and nuclear technology has become indigenous.

Hassan Rouhani

The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.

Cynthia McKinney

There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

Donald Trump

If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now because you'll quadruple - this, what's happening in Iran, is a disgrace, and it's going to lead to destruction in large portions of the world.

Donald Trump

Certainly would never have made that horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran where they get $150 billion. They're a terrorist nation.

Donald Trump

If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now.

To use this as a method for punishing Iran for its nuclear ambitions seems to be not well thought out.

Traders are looking at the Nigerian and Iranian issues. They don't like to sell at present.

David Letterman

President Obama's trying to work out a nuclear deal with Iran, and the Republicans are steamed. They got together and sent Iran a letter about the nuclear deal. They said if this doesn't work, by God, they're going to send Seth Rogen and James Franco.

Anthony Eden

If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.