Syria Quotes · Page 5

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

— Richard Engel

The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.

— Jack Keane

Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.

— Ehud Olmert

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

— Bill Kristol

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

— Peter Bergen

If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore.

— Bashar al-Assad

If we topple [Bashar] Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests.

— Ted Cruz

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen…

— Franklin Graham

It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that…

— David Ignatius

For America to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step, and we have to do so making absolutely certain…

— Barack Obama

A comprehensive Syria strategy, ideally one that's more than 280 characters, remains a key requirement to protect U.S. interests in the Middle…

— Ted Lieu

If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that…

— Barack Obama

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be…

— John F. Kerry

Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new…

— Donald Trump

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations…

— Malcolm Nance

In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain…

— Barack Obama

Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the…

— Edgar Cayce

I would only go to Syria to destroy ISIS. I would not use U.S. troops to depose Assad. But I would support…

— John Kasich

If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for…

— Donald Rumsfeld

The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Those young ones who want to try military jihad are facing a triple issue. First of all, they are missing the point…

— Tariq Ramadan

There's no UN resolution that allows the United States to carry out operations in Syria. You'll remember that in Libya in 2011…

— Vijay Prashad

We understand that ISIS is a group that's growing in its governance of territory. It's not just Iraq and Syria. They are…

— Marco Rubio

“each civilized person in the world should admit that he has two home countries: the one he was born in, and Syria .”

— Andrea Parrot

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Let's put America first. Let's not spill American blood to fight the enemies of other countries as is the case in Syria.

— Stephen Miller

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.

— Hassan Nasrallah

The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.

— John F. Kerry

The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.

— Elliott Abrams

You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.

— John F. Kerry

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

— Bashar al-Assad

President-elect [Donald] Trump has promised a safe zone, a humanitarian zone [in Syria].

— Martha Raddatz

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

— Nancy Gibbs

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

— Barack Obama

I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon…

— Jimmy Carter

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

— Mairead Corrigan

Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

— Ali Babacan

The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capacity is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime…

— Hillary Clinton

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria.

— Michelle Dockery