Said Quotes by Bashar al-Assad

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

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and,…

— Bashar al-Assad

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call…

— Bashar al-Assad

We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody…

— Bashar al-Assad

John Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that…

— Bashar al-Assad

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

We don't discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never…

— Bashar al-Assad

As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect…

— Bashar al-Assad

At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.

— Bashar al-Assad

Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons,…

— Bashar al-Assad

Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not…

— Bashar al-Assad

We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north…

— Bashar al-Assad

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as…

— Bashar al-Assad

[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

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

— Bashar al-Assad

To have or not to have [chemical weapons] is a possibility, but to depend on what media says is nonsense, or to…

— Bashar al-Assad

We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we…

— Bashar al-Assad

We didn't say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast…

— Bashar al-Assad

You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement... contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts…

— Bashar al-Assad

There's a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she…

— Bashar al-Assad

There's a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and…

— Bashar al-Assad

We're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened.

— Bashar al-Assad