We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
BASHAR AL-ASSADNo doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
BASHAR AL-ASSADCircumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
BASHAR AL-ASSADWith the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don’t interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAny external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThink of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington’s approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re not like the American administration, we’re not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we’ll announce it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADFrom the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
BASHAR AL-ASSADLook at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIsraeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
BASHAR AL-ASSADDespite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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