“Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that’s just the way it is.”

For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.

I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.

We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

“Winning” is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don’t trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.

Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience … indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better

Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.