When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.