We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad – nothing good.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
More Bashar al-Assad Quotes
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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[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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When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
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We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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We don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.
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With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.
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I 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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The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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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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Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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