Words To Remember:

"I would be willing to bet that, in another year or so, … Khomeini will be [seen as] some kind of saint when we finally get over the panic of what is happening there," -Jimmy Carter's UN envoy, Andrew Young, commenting on the 1979 overthrow of the pro-American Shah of Iran by the avowedly anti-Western Ayatollah Ruhollah Khommeini

"America cannot do a damn thing." -Ayatollah Khomeini, commenting on the hostage crisis after receiving President Carter's flattering, handwritten appeal for the release of the captured Americans "from one believer to a man of God."

“Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: Two for president; two for the Parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralties. In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.” -Former President Bill Clinton, speaking on the Charlie Rose Show, on America's PBS TV network.

[There is] no significant need for the United States." -Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad