Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ted Cruz

The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.

Ted Cruz

Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.

Ted Cruz

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

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.

Omar Suleiman

Iran will give them the money, I think.

Robert McFarlane

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

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 geopolitical situation with Iran and the meeting on Monday...is weighing heavily on the market.

John Barrasso

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

John Bolton

There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.

John Bolton

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

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.

Rick Perry

I would've a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a deal where we didn't give everything away.But the issue for us is to have a Congress that stands up and says not only no, but hell no, to this money going to a [Iran] regime that is going to use it for terror...

Richard Perle

In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.

Zalmay Khalilzad

We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

Yukiya Amano

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

William Hague

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Salman Rushdie

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Salman Rushdie

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

Salman Rushdie

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Li Zhaoxing

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

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.