We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

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

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.

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.

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.

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.