Bashar al-Assad
Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?Collection: Attitude
The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.Collection: Country
[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.Collection: People
The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.Collection: Talking
It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.Collection: Morning
I don't believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.Collection: Couple
The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.Collection: Fighting
We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.Collection: Reality
There can be no peace without unity.Collection: Unity
You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.Collection: Community
The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.Collection: Country
Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.Collection: War
I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.Collection: Giving
If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.Collection: Government
There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.Collection: Mistake
You can't say "the people of Aleppo" because the majority of the people of Aleppo are living in the area under the control of the government, so you cannot talk about the people of Aleppo.Collection: Government
The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.Collection: Firsts
If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.Collection: People
My primary goal is to create prosperity.Collection: Goal
The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.Collection: Party
If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.Collection: Party
Politics is about realities, not logic.Collection: Reality
Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.Collection: Law
You have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. When there is divergence between your policy and the people's beliefs and interests, you will have this vacuum that creates disturbance.Collection: Issues
America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.Collection: Government
Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.Collection: Political
Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.Collection: Suicide
I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.Collection: Country
When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don't have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That's the question.Collection: War
Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That's the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that's definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.Collection: Fighting
The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.Collection: War
Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it's difficult to say who is more important than the other.Collection: Russia
[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.Collection: Sooner Or Later
The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.Collection: House
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.Collection: Country
If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.Collection: People
We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It's cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It's not related to the crisis.Collection: Country
We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.Collection: Country
We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.Collection: Weapons
Even if you want to take the American story, they say we used chemical weapons the same day the team or the investigation team came to Syria ; is it logical ? It's not logical. Even if a country or army wanted to use such weapon, they should have waited a few days till the investigation finished its work. It's not logical, the whole story doesn't even hold together.Collection: Country
The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.Collection: Government
I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.Collection: Evidence
We didn't say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.Collection: Organization
Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.Collection: Country
I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.Collection: War
It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.Collection: Religious
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.Collection: Party
We don't discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don't have it. It's a Syrian issue ; it's a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.Collection: Military