Administration Quote by Nikki Haley

Seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for America.

— Mitt Romney

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

— Nikki Haley

Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.

— Ehud Olmert

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

There is no doubt Assad deserves every missile we fire at him, but there's one big problem with air strikes - there is absolutely…

— Chris Murphy

Our priority in Syria, really hasn't changed. I think the President Donald Trump has been quite clear. First and foremost, we must defeat ISIS.

— Rex W. Tillerson

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic…

— Rand Paul

Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong…

— Hillary Clinton

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have…

— Donald Trump

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

— Bashar al-Assad

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

— Donald Trump

While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator and should be tried at the Hague for international war crimes, the United States should…

— Ro Khanna