Brutality Quote by Jeff Fortenberry

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

— Chuck Hagel

The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another…

— Rand Paul

Assad is a bad guy, but you may very well end up with worse than Assad.

— Donald Trump

You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to…

— Rashid Khalidi

It's - getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS.

— Nikki Haley

I don't understand this thing about [Bashar] Assad. He has to go. Assad is aligned with Iran and Russia. The one thing we want…

— John Kasich

Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people.…

— Nikki Haley

If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody about the…

— John F. Kerry

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down…

— Richard Branson

If [Bashar] Assad himself could save this whole process by saying, "I will engage in a managed transition where we all work together to…

— John F. Kerry

I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and…

— Rand Paul

Let's all recognize that, in a world full of disgusting dictators, Bashar Assad maybe ranks at the top. This is a guy, in order…

— Jake Tapper