Bashar al-Assad

Even a president makes mistakes.

— Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

— Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

— Bashar al-Assad

Hizbullah is not a militia.

— Bashar al-Assad

There can be no peace without unity.

— Bashar al-Assad

We feel pain for every Syrian victim.

— Bashar al-Assad

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

— Bashar al-Assad

In the end a lie is a lie.

— Bashar al-Assad

If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore.

— Bashar al-Assad

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

— Bashar al-Assad

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

— Bashar al-Assad

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.

— Bashar al-Assad

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,

— Bashar al-Assad

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

— Bashar al-Assad

The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.

— Bashar al-Assad

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

— Bashar al-Assad

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a…

— Bashar al-Assad

I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and…

— Bashar al-Assad

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.

— Bashar al-Assad

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

— Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be…

— Bashar al-Assad

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether…

— 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

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.

— Bashar al-Assad

With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the…

— Bashar al-Assad

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

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but…

— Bashar al-Assad

Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That's the…

— Bashar al-Assad

Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in…

— Bashar al-Assad

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability…

— Bashar al-Assad

In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of…

— Bashar al-Assad

Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about…

— 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

This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The…

— 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

[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

My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on…

— 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

Even if you want to take the American story, they say we used chemical weapons the same day the team or the…

— Bashar al-Assad

These people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning…

— Bashar al-Assad