It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that’s called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You’re right about this. It’s going to be direct support.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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How can you be afraid to feel? Isn’t fear a feeling? If you’re feeling fear, you’ve felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel.
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The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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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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The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn’t have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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There can be no peace without unity.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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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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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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