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I think that the American people should have more control over their government. To think that a government would go to some part of the world and start a war there and then take the oil and resources--this is a situation that is not stable because all the people of the world constitute one family. And sooner or later, all the evil that is done in one part of the world will have repercussions in other parts of the world.

WHEN YOU WERE MAYOR OF TEHRAN, YOU USED TO TAKE YOUR LUNCH TO THE OFFICE IN A BAG. DO YOU STILL DO THIS?

That continues. Is there a problem with that? What's wrong if you want to eat the food that your wife has cooked?

WE'RE OUT OF TIME, BUT I WANT TO KEEP GOING UNTIL ...

We've gone one minute over, actually.

O.K., BUT I HAVE TWO LAST QUESTIONS.

This is very common, I think, in America, isn't it? To ask for more.


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