Syria Quotes · Page 6

If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.

— Haider al-Abadi

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

— Ridley Scott

We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.

— Sergei Lavrov

We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria…

— Adel al-Jubeir

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

— Yitzhak Rabin

Russia is not engaged in a fight against Daesh in Syria. On the contrary, they are actually targeting moderate opposition.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?

— Pat Buchanan

Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.

— Peter R. Mansoor

ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq.…

— Barack Obama

Disentangling this mess of foreign national interests is a necessary precondition to ensuring that there will be a future for Syria that…

— Crispin Blunt

The Syrian war was started and fueled by three countries in the region, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey. They acted for the…

— Burhan Sonmez

“And we are not pursuing military information on this trip. At least not about the Russian mafia exchanging Russian-Ukrainian tanks and electronics…

— Karl Braungart

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in…

— Anonymous

The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We…

— Bashar al-Assad

I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful,…

— Paul Wolfowitz

The trans-Atlantic relationship is strong and must remain so. The U.S. is an ally in the camp of freedom. On security and…

— Emmanuel Macron

It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether…

— Louise Erdrich

[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing…

— Noam Chomsky

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad…

— Martin Rees

Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and…

— Barack Obama

We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's…

— Jesse Jackson

This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you…

— Vladimir Putin

The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or…

— Noam Chomsky

Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria has been a disaster for the public image of Islam - and a boon…

— Mehdi Hasan

[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.

— Bashar al-Assad

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

— Bashar al-Assad

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

— Bruce Braley

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

— Robert Fisk

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

— Ehud Olmert

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

— Paul Krugman

Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.

— Richard Engel

We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.

— Bashar al-Assad

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

— John F. Kerry

Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.

— Hassan Nasrallah

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and…

— Ehud Olmert

If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.

— David Ignatius

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

— Garry Kasparov

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent…

— Barack Obama

“Your enemy is not in North Korea or Syria, it is your own corporate controlled government.”

— Steven Magee