Al Quote by Richard Engel

I'll tell you whose view on [Bashar] Assad is the same as mine. It's Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel…

— Ted Cruz

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

— Ehud Olmert

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

Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choice between Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda.

— Francois Hollande

[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

— Marco Rubio

I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi…

— Frank Carlucci

IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible…

— Tariq Ramadan

Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves…

— Marco Rubio

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to…

— Derek Chollet

I think continued actions by Bashar al-Assad clearly call into any question of him expecting to have any legitimacy to continue as the leader…

— Rex W. Tillerson

People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What…

— John F. Kerry