"It is an antagonistic move ... a psychological war which has no impact ... There is nothing new, it has been going on for over 30 years."
RAMIN MEHMANPARAST
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman
about tightening of US sanctions that targets the Islamic state's Central Bank and gives US banks new powers to freeze assets linked to the Iranian government.

'The Republican candidate is the least intolerable of the intolerables, the least bad of the worst."
FIDEL CASTRO
Cuban revolutionary leader
about the campaign in the United States for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.

"An accident is an accident. There is nothing to protest."
SYED ASHRAFUL ISLAM
LGRD and cooperatives minister
about protesting deaths in road accidents.

"What I'm going to just keep on doing is plodding away, very persistent. And you know what? One of the things about being president is you get better as time goes on."
BARACK OBAMA
US president
explaining why he deserves a second term in the White House.