black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Bashar al-Assad

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.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Morning Opposites People
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Another Country Mean Resources
To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Government Opposition Some Within
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Culture Democracy Different
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.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Country Fighting People
Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Criminal Mean Thieves
The 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Campaigns Opposites Talking
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.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Believe Evidence Reality
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.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Advice Country Peaceful
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.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Country Secular Secularism
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Groups People Support
In any war, people will pay the price.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Pay People Price War
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Different East Middle Party
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Country Lines Religious
It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Country Fighting Government
At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Chemicals Ends Weapons

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bashar al-Assad Quotes