The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I’m President to help the Syrian people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I’m President to help the Syrian people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
BASHAR AL-ASSADFirst of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWorry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.
BASHAR AL-ASSADEverything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADNo doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThis is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
BASHAR AL-ASSADIn the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThat’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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