Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Louis Farrakhan

I did not know in the beginning how important the trip would be but we knew that Iran was in the crosshairs of the Neo-Conservative movement. And when you listen to Mr. Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential hopeful, and when you listen to Mr. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, when you listen to their language, it says to me that they are agents of the Neo-Conservative strategy.

Michael Scheuer

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

She personally does not think much of the idea of keeping Iran out of the games.

Jim Gerlach

In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

Christopher Hitchens

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Hillary Clinton

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

Hillary Clinton

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Hillary Clinton

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Hillary Clinton

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

Hillary Clinton

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

Fawn Hall

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

George W. Bush

This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table

Christiane Amanpour

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Cheetahs in Iran live on a knife-edge in very marginal habitat,

Greg Giraldo

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

People know the Iranian situation will stay in the market for quite some time.

Jacques Chirac

I was profoundly shocked by the statements of the Iranian president, which are totally senseless and irresponsible,

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets.

will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Javier Solana

We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.

Jay Rockefeller

Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

Jay Leno

I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.

Chris Matthews

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

Hooman Majd

If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.

Hooman Majd

The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision ...

Hooman Majd

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

Hooman Majd

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

Hugo Chavez

If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.

Hassan Nasrallah

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.