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To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.

I LOVE YOU SHAHAN SHAH MOHAMADREZA GOD BLESSE YOU

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.

There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.

The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.