For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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Trust 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.
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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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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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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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If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda – go ahead. That’s what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don’t talk about rebels and free Syrian army.
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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.
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If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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