Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

Condoleezza Rice

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

Conan O'Brien

In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'

Conan O'Brien

The Obama administration announced a deal with Iran that would prevent the Iranians from making a nuclear weapon. In exchange, we're giving the Iranians Netflix.

Andy Rooney

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

Andrew Young

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Chuck Hagel

I have said many times that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism,

David Petraeus

Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia.

David Petraeus

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Our expectations are low that the Iranians will accept.

Definitely, Iran will never be prepared for dismantling. This is out of the question and is out of negotiation.

It's a question of whether Iran or the U.S. blinks first.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

the same as those of the Iranian nation.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I dont see why they cant engage with Iran.

Haile Selassie

Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.

Jay Rockefeller

Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

Jay Leno

I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.

Leon Panetta

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

Leon Panetta

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

Mitt Romney

Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces.

Mitt Romney

Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.

Mitt Romney

A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.

Mitt Romney

[T]he greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran.

Mitt Romney

What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.

Mike Huckabee

It has to do with the incredibly dangerous place that this world is gonna be as a result of a deal in which we got nothing.We didn't even get four hostages out. We got nothing, and Iran gets everything they want.

Noam Chomsky

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.

Noam Chomsky

In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it's interesting that Obama picked the day of implementing of Iran deal to impose new sanctions on North Korea.

Howard Berman

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

Ike Skelton

We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

Oliver North

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy

Louis Farrakhan

I did not know in the beginning how important the trip would be but we knew that Iran was in the crosshairs of the Neo-Conservative movement. And when you listen to Mr. Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential hopeful, and when you listen to Mr. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, when you listen to their language, it says to me that they are agents of the Neo-Conservative strategy.