Iran Quotes

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.

We need to focus our attention on Iran, because if you miss Iran, you are not going to get ISIS. The two are inextricably connected because one causes the other.

Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

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.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

Iran is biggest strategic beneficiary of invasion of Iraq.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

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.

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.

“Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .

That may prevent us from getting a deal done, It is there to be had. Whether ultimately Iran can seize that opportunity - we will have to wait and see, but it is not for lack of trying on our part.

With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.

Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran...

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

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

Iran is the greatest national security threat America faces. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this.

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.

The greatest threat that the world faces, the greatest national security threat is a nuclear Iran.

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.

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.