I cannot afford to make mistakes.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.
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You want me to believe American evidence and don’t want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we’re not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That’s how we have to look at it.
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The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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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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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
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