It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.