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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.

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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
A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
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Differences Different Use
Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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Fighting War Years
I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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Believe United States Violence
Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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Agendas Political Terrorism
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Believe Lebanon Real
The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Hate Mean People
When you’re in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you’re quitting your country and this is treason.
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Country Leaving Mean
The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don’t interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.
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Country Law Other Respect Value
[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
As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.
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East Government Middle Proposed
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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Another Country Mean Resources
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
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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Country Inception Threat
We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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Constitution Responsibility Talking
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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Illusion Palaces Vision

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