If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
What the army is doing is cleaning those areas, and the indication that the army is strong is that it's making advancement… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
In reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case.… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said "we have all the guarantees if you want to… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book.… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn't matter if he's Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We cannot tell anything about what [Donald Trump] is going to do, but if, let's say if he is going to fight… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn't have it. He didn't present it… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If we want to expect something from this [Barack Obama] administration, it is not to be weak, to be strong to say… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda - go ahead. That's what we have to tell them, go ahead and support… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I never rejected any responsibility, but that depends on the decision. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The second thing… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President.… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image