Syria Quotes · Page 5

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

— Nikki Haley

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

— John Gunther

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

— Yitzhak Rabin

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.

— David Ignatius

To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Putin has outsmarted Hillary Clinton and Obama at every single step of the way. Whether it's Syria, you name it. Missiles.

— Donald Trump

This is eventually how Syria will be resolved - through a political settlement.

— Chuck Hagel

“Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria…

— Richard Engel

We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends,…

— Barack Obama

There are many countries who have traditionally sponsored terrorism. Iraq is one, though it appears the majority of the terrorism committed by…

— Richard Armitage

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They…

— Hillary Clinton

We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our…

— Adel al-Jubeir

The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and…

— Jamal Khashoggi

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the…

— Vladimir Putin

Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime from carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes…

— Peter Bergen

The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on…

— Elliott Abrams

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

The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

Syria has allowed its soil to be transited by foreign fighters who have come from a variety of source countries in the…

— David Petraeus

If we want to defeat Islamic State, we first have to arrive at a cease-fire agreement in Syria. Once that has been…

— Martin Schulz

I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East,…

— Pope Francis

Wall Street is a huge issue. And it's controlling our lives today with this so-called election - we really have no choice.…

— Oliver Stone

In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans.

— Geert Wilders

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a…

— Anthony Zinni

Why give Russia or Syria any reason to doubt that Obama would use force?

— Lois Frankel

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

— Rand Paul

Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians,…

— Hillary Clinton

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

— Richard Engel

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

— Bashar al-Assad

What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.

— Nadia Murad

Ultimately, stability in Syria will come from decisions made on the ground by the Syrian people and by their immediate neighbors.

— Chris Murphy

When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think…

— Samantha Power

I think we can take back Mosul, and then we can move on into Syria and take back Raqqa.

— Hillary Clinton

The people who are fleeing Syria, they're the ones who need to run the country there long-term.

— Lee Zeldin

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

— Richard Engel

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

— Bashar al-Assad

Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to…

— Jack Keane