Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.