“We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground.”

If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones.” [Bashar] Assad’s people rebelled.

All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.

We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country.

It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before.

Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

Let’s not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls.

We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons

What we want is stability and security so we can focus on our own development.

We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment.

We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.

You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle.

I don’t think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad

The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East.

These people are criminals. They’re psychopaths.

We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other – in balance with it… The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.