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Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that’s just the way it is.

Bashar al-Assad

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.
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Country Fighting People
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.
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Issue Mean Talking
I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Believe Principles War
The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.
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Believe Reality War
Any cooperation that doesn’t go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it’s not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don’t recognize and we don’t accept.
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Accept Cooperation Government
We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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Country Everything Future Relate
From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Country Decision President
Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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Fighting People Something Terrorist
The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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Army People Robots
The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Hate Mean People
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.
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Different People President
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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Book Children Jesus
We 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.
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Pockets Political Scorpions
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Democracy Persons Society
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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Decision People Political
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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Occupation People Problem

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