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

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.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo.

I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.