Shirin Ebadi Quotes

Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

If the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily distracted as we are might reasonably apprehended.

The Iranians are not part of the “axis of Evil”. They are part of the axis of Medieval.

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

Nothing guides Russian policy so much as a desire for friendship with the United States.

Every president I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

I do think it's fair to say that there are times when President Obama has not been engaged enough with the Middle East.

We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an excuse to brand us as allies of Mr. Bush.