You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
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From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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It’s not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam – actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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According to what we’ve been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe.
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In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don’t trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.
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I don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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There can be no peace without unity.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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