Adviser Quote by Robert Fisk

“However, since the Syrian regime is even less transparent than the NGOs, we have no way of knowing that, either.”

— John R. Bradley

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

— Michael Isikoff

I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You…

— Anthony Shadid

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the…

— Walid Jumblatt

“The irony lost on all, though, is that the Syrian regime is quietly keeping alive the traditions that Moubayed lamented had vanished, if not…

— John R. Bradley

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

— Susan Rice

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

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

— Walid Jumblatt

When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest me at…

— Rabih Alameddine

“Perhaps the most extreme example is that of the Syrian branch, which got involved in a bloody conflict with the Ba’athist regime”

— Alison Pargeter

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally…

— William Hague