Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits.

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

Israel must be wiped off the map.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.

We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.