(285 quotes found)
“I think not taking Iran seriously is an enormous mistake. I've always felt that it was much more of a problem than Iraq was.”
Jay Rockefeller
“The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere”
John Mortimer
“What they're saying, too, is like, it's OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons. But Iran or Syria better not get nuclear weapons. ... It's OK for Israel to occupy Palestine, ... for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it's not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. They're a bunch of (expletive) hypocrites.”
Cindy Sheehan
“Iran is ready to transfer nuclear know-how to the Islamic countries due to their need.”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.”
Joseph Cirincione
“Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reversal would be seen as inexplicably inconsistent by those nations whom we have urged to refrain from such sales, and would likely lead to increased arms sales by them and a possible alteration of the strategic balance in favor of Iran while (the Ayatollah) Khomeini is still the controlling influence.”
Caspar W. Weinberger
“Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.”
“The Shah (of Iran) was - despite the travesties of retroactive myth - a dedicated reformer”
Henry Kissinger
“Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means of achieving this.”
Alexei Arbatov
“Iran is one to three years away from making a bomb.”
Alireza Jafarzadeh
