Chemical weapons Quote by Bashar al-Assad

[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we…

— Bashar al-Assad

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

— Bashar al-Assad

We were certainly worried about the deployment of chemical weapons across Syria by all parties, frankly, by the Islamic State as well. So it…

— Andrew Exum

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

— Bashar al-Assad

Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that…

— Vladimir Putin

And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time…

— Barack Obama

If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime…

— Noam Chomsky

Syria is a signature to the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which bans the use of chemical warfare. Syria has violated that international norm. For…

— Ivo Daalder

Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle East. But…

— Noam Chomsky

If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not…

— Barack Obama

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

— Dick Cheney

If you're going to be involved in Syria, then you need to make sure that there really is peace in Syria. And that means…

— Jeremy Hunt