I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. It utilizes psychology to say that women are emotional. It utilizes medical science to say that men's brains are formed in such a way that they are better able to understand concepts. These are all hypotheses. None of this has been proven.

We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around the world have no access to drinking water.

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.