Shah Is A Kind Of Magic Word

When You Think I've Been Wounded By A Good Five Bullets, One In The Face, One In The Shoulder, One In The Head, Two In The Body, And That The Last One Stuck In The Barrel Because The Trigger Jammed... You Have To Believe In Miracles. I've Had So Many Air Disasters, And Yet I've Always Come Out Unscathed - Thanks To A Miracle While By God And The Prophets.

It Would Serve The Americans Right If We Emptied The Prisons And Let The Subversives Take Power. They'd Soon Show Washington Just How Much They Appreciate Good Old American Values.

The Shah Regarded Politics As The Province Of Demagoguery, An Art In Which Only Charlatans Could Excel. He Had No Time For What He Saw As The Tedious Process Of Achieving Consensus Through Debate And Discussion And Tried To Justify His Solitary Exercise Of Power By Insisting It Was What Iran Needed To Catch Up With Lost Time. He Believed He Was More Patriotic Than Anyone Else And Needed No Advice On How Best To Promote And Protect The Highest Interests Of The Nation.

I Have Learned By Experience That A Tragic End Awaits Anyone Who Dares Cross Swords With Me; Nasser Is No More, John And Robert Kennedy Died At The Hands Of Assassins, Their Brother Edward Has Been Disgraced, Krushchev Was Toppled, The List Is Endless.

Nixon Is A Strong Leader With A Good Grasp Of The World's Problems. He Knows That The Only Way To Argue With The Communists Is From A Position Of Strength.