Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marjane Satrapi

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Marjane Satrapi

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

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.

Ron Paul

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

Susan Rice

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

Mohammad Khatami

Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

Shirin Ebadi

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Shirin Ebadi

The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

Shirin Ebadi

The role of Iran has been very destructive. As an Iranian, I apologize to the civilian people of Syria who have been killed as a result of the useless intervention of Iran in Syria.

Shirin Ebadi

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

Shirin Ebadi

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

Shirin Ebadi

I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

Shimon Peres

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

Leonard Peikoff

Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.

Marco Rubio

Bashar Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

Tom Lantos

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

Steven Pinker

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Richard Armitage

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

T. Boone Pickens

Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

Li Zhaoxing

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

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.

Reza Aslan

The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.

Moshe Katsav

Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.

Moshe Katsav

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Moshe Katsav

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

Rudy Giuliani

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.