Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
BASHAR AL-ASSADOur democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars… We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADTrust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThis is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
BASHAR AL-ASSADHamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you’re in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you’re quitting your country and this is treason.
BASHAR AL-ASSADCircumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad – nothing good.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it’s a very primitive gas. So, it’s not something complicated.
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