Assad Quotes · Page 2

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal…

— Derek Chollet

“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

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

— John McCain

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

— Vladimir Putin

Hillary Clinton called President Assad a "reformer". She called Assad a "different kind of leader". There's now 400,000 now dead... think about that.

— Chris Christie

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's…

— George Friedman

Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I…

— Adel al-Jubeir

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

— Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton failed to mention that her agreement with a precipitous withdrawal and declaration of victory in 2011 helped left swaths of…

— Carly Fiorina

Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his…

— Nikki Haley

I believe that Assad must go. I believe he will go. But I believe - we want to make sure that America…

— Mitt Romney

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

— Marco Rubio

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…

— George Friedman

I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and…

— Chris Matthews

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

— Ted Cruz

Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the…

— Hillary Clinton

“The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

— Mike Pence

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria…

— Adel al-Jubeir

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves…

— William Hague

I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak…

— Yitzhak Rabin

“Assad: 'I have written it just down here.' He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization…

— Barack Obama

A large part of the left is pro-Assad. In those circles, you can't criticize Assad, but you know he's a monstrous war…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— John F. Kerry

Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do…

— Vladimir Putin

[Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be.…

— Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong. Hitting the reset button with Vladimir Putin - recall that she called Bashar…

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Marco Rubio

I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by…

— George Galloway

[Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got…

— John McCain

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

— John F. Kerry

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

— Martin O'Malley

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

— Susan Rice

Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.

— Barack Obama

“Time travel is one of Assad's major achievements, the problem is he only perfected it one way: backward.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

— Robert Fisk

Seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for America.

— Mitt Romney

I think [Bashar] Assad is a bad guy, a very bad guy, all right?

— Donald Trump