Quotes by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
| Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. |
| Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. |
| My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. |
| My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. |
