He showed his personality and energy in his famous shout: "If you are an American or you're just a human being and got any blood going through your veins -- AHHOOWW! I feel good!"

VOA: special.2010.05.16

"We enjoy the fruits of prejudice and bigotry being lifted - slowly, sometimes,in fits and starts, but irrevocably - from human hearts.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

But his criticism of what he saw as authoritarianism and human-rights abuses led to his being dropped as successor to the nation's Supreme Leader.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

"And,we ended up being involved in state-building and counter-narcotics and human rights and nation development, which actually took the focus away from the main priority."

VOA: standard.2009.08.02