In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

I hope that things will change, because it's a pity that a country like Iran is not where it should be, or where it has been historically. It's important for Iran, for all of the Middle East, and also for the rest of the world.

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.