You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.
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Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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We 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.
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If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
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We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
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Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it’s difficult to say who is more important than the other.
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I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.
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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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