Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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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.
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In the end a lie is a lie.
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Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don’t trust the government, they should go the other way.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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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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Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world.
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