I would rather be called servant than leader. Leadership is not the issue, service is topical. Islam has made it incumbent on us to serve.

I am a brother to the people of Iran and regard myself as a servant and soldier of them.

I need no financial aid. I fight the Shah with a pen and a sheet of paper and, if I needed help, my nation will help me.

God knows that I ask no rights, privileges, immunities or prerogatives for mysell If I err, I am ready for the consequences. I hope Khomeini will never deviate…

The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cheri…

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties …