“When people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.”

Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that “don’t deal with terrorists as playing games.” It’s a different story. You’re going to pay the price if you’re not wise in dealing with terrorists.

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.

Don’t assume before you are assured.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.