Syria Quotes · Page 4

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

— John F. Kerry

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

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

— Yitzhak Rabin

I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon…

— Jimmy Carter

The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capacity is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime…

— Hillary Clinton

Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

— Ali Babacan

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

— Bashar al-Assad

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be…

— John F. Kerry

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

— Barack Obama

“1945-1990 - Russophobia 1990-2015 - Islamophobia 2015- ?? - Russophobia AND Islamophobia. Isnt it time the MI Complex created a new bogey-man?”

— Arindam Mukherjee

As far as the Internet is concerned, we're not talking about closing the Internet. I'm talking about parts of Syria, parts of…

— Donald Trump

We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the…

— Bashar al-Assad

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the…

— Angelina Jolie

The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint…

— Elliott Abrams

I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria,…

— Dana Milbank

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

You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will…

— Bashar al-Assad

We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt and…

— Donald Trump

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…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

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

We understand that ISIS is a group that's growing in its governance of territory. It's not just Iraq and Syria. They are…

— Marco Rubio

Those young ones who want to try military jihad are facing a triple issue. First of all, they are missing the point…

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— Bruce Braley

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

— Hassan Nasrallah

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

— Richard Engel

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

— Steven Magee

I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

— Walid Jumblatt

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Garry Kasparov

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

— David Ignatius

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

— Barack Obama

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

— Edward Luck

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.

— John Kasich

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

— Bashar al-Assad

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

— Bashar al-Assad

“Hezbollah is not a mammoth force, there is only so much they can do in Syria. Iranian role more critical for the…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I went with my love all over Damascus, he said. The memory is tied to the place.

— New York Times