Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

Chris Christie

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

Madeleine Albright

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

Bill Maher

Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.

Bill Walton

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Until and unless the stalemate with Iran is resolved one way or the other, I think we're going to see prices higher.

We repeated our positions and the Iranians repeated theirs.

International pressure on Iran proves that (its nuclear activities) are not only Israel's problem.

Iran is the real threat because there's just so many ways it could play out. This is the one that could actually get us to $100.

Iran is starting to loom in the picture as a threat to oil capacity.

Iran is one to three years away from making a bomb.

Iran is not Iraq. And the United States is not the self-appointed policeman of the world.

Stephen Kinzer

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Sergey Lavrov

Iran has removed the seals from a uranium enrichment plant and therefore urgent consultations are needed.

Iran has already said it's not going to use oil as a political weapon.

Omar Suleiman

Iran will give them the money, I think.

Greg Giraldo

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

Robert McFarlane

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.

John O. Brennan

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Thabo Mbeki

It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatories to the Treaty, and therefore that we cannot deny Iran the rights due to it as a signatory of the NPT.

Michael Palin

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

Michael McCaul

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Rand Paul

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

Henry Rollins

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Helmut Schmidt

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

Ian Bremmer

The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.

The Iranians are taking this right down to the wire.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran.

The Iranian nation is united on one thing. Iranians don't tolerate humiliation and threats.