“The country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.”

As long as Iran’s aggressive policies continue

The whole world was saying that the countries of the regions should step up and resolve their problems, so we stepped up.

Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia.

So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.

But I don’t believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.

The Iranians should just stay away from us.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments.

It is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia.

There is nothing to encourage.

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh?

We don’t tolerate terrorism.

We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism.

We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces.

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.

To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else.

Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.

I just said, “This is something to get on board with.”

I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.

You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man.

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this:

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.