Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the U.S. as a geopolitical player.

We continue to send money to the U.N. for countries who are anti-American and anti-Israel - it's got to stop.

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the U.S. and intervention and meddling by the U.S.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.

From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is: 'Death to America’

The so-called world order is a criminal world order led by America, whom we call upon Allah to humiliate.

[Czechoslovakia is] ... the godchild of the great and glorious Republic of the United States.

It is a myth that most people throughout the world hate America. They hate the American government and the American military …. They love American culture—they have made it the world’s culture.

Never before has the gap between American power and its legitimacy been so great.