The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.

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.

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

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.

If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

The best defense is not to offend.

A small deer came into my camp and stole my bag of pickles. Is there a way I can get reimbursed? Please call.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.