“Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.”

When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.

In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).

Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.

Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.

The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.

In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.

The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.

Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.