Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Hitchens

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Chris Matthews

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

Christiane Amanpour

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

George W. Bush

This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table

Fawn Hall

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

Hooman Majd

If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.

Hooman Majd

The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision ...

Hooman Majd

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

Hooman Majd

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

Hugo Chavez

If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.

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

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

the same as those of the Iranian nation.

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.

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.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

Howard Berman

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

Hillary Clinton

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

Hillary Clinton

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Hillary Clinton

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Hillary Clinton

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

Hillary Clinton

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

Cheetahs in Iran live on a knife-edge in very marginal habitat,

Greg Giraldo

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