"Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended."

"We are not weak, and because of the war, we did not want our position to be taken as a sign of weakness, that we were begging. At the appropriate time we will tell the Americans, 'Come.'"

"It's in God's hands."

"Don’t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him."

"The embargo is a crime against humanity."