A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.

I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.