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

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

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

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"