“We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.”

That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.

We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.

This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn’t have it. He didn’t present it because he doesn’t have it, Kerry doesn’t have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.

[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.

In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.

There can be no peace without unity.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

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.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.

There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.