Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Quotes

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

We have 535 Secretaries of State.

Nixon railed against the CIA and their lousy intelligence.

No matter who occupies the Presidency, Washington tends to unilateralism.

Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

One of my chief criticisms of U.S. international policy is that Congress has largely abdicated its foreign policy-making responsibilities to the executive branch.

You have to understand government and you have to understand how hard it is.

Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney General of the United States.

I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

I think with regards to solutions, there are solutions, and I think there is only one. we have said repeatedly to the government of the United States that we do not want anything but to forget us, that they do not consider us even for good or evil.

If the president of the United States comes after you, you feel concerned.

We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.

I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and we will uphold the law of the United States.

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

The president of the United States, his role is to uphold and to fight for the rights of every person, every American.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.