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Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.

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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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Interest Mold Wanted
We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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Alleged Chemicals Happen Sure
[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
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Country Independent Years
Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn’t be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.
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Country Face Help War
Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.
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Eras President Reality
Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it’s difficult to say who is more important than the other.
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Achievement Country Hope Important
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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Citizens Country Occupy Today
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
“Winning” is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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Advancement People Winning
The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Hate Mean People
I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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Airplane Differences People
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Country Establishment Threat
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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Government Opposition Some Within
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
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
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Culture Democracy Different

Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.

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Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.

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