I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.

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.

I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.

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

He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.