Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.

Today Syria, tomorrow your country.

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right.

Death to Israel! Death to Israel!

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

Everyone must learn from the past.

The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.

The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.

I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.

I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

All peoples are fed up with the American government.

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.

We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

One can not impede scientific progress.

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.