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

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.

Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

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.

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.