You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADNobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don’t trust the government, they should go the other way.
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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Even a president makes mistakes.
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Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that’s why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That’s the problem with the American role.
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When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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We would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can’t be tolerated in Syria. I’m talking about the normal reaction of the people.
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We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
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