[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even…

I'll tell you whose view on [Bashar] Assad is the same as mine. It's Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel…

— Ted Cruz

Our job is to provide coalition the military equipment that they need; the air support they need; special forces when appropriate. But at the…

— Bernie Sanders

There's a reason ISIS exists, which is because we've invaded countries, and they hate the Western world. I'm not forgiving them; I'm just saying…

— Emily Ratajkowski

Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves…

— Marco Rubio

We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we…

— Marco Rubio

If [Bashar] Assad himself could save this whole process by saying, "I will engage in a managed transition where we all work together to…

— John F. Kerry

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

— Rand Paul

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 themselves the…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

— John McCain

“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting…

— Donald Trump

Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but…

— George Friedman

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

— John F. Kerry

We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want…

— Tom Segev

People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What…

— John F. Kerry