Syria Quotes

• We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Evil, Inability

  "Angelina Jolie criticizes UN Security Council on Syria refugee crisis", www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2015.

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• No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Believe, Army

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia" by Vladimir Putin, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Made, Dies

  "Assad: Erdogan thinks he's Caliph, new sultan of the Ottoman (EXCLUSIVE)". Interview with Sophie Shevardnadze, www.rt.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

  William Hague

  Religious, Party, People

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• You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Easter, War, Egypt

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• America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran station, Egypt station, Syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: Keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother Israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Israel, Egypt

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• Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

  Antonio Guterres

  Suffering, Tragedy, Humanitarian

  "Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis". "Moyers & Company" with Phil Donahue, billmoyers.com. September 6, 2013.

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• There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Believe, Leader

  Interview With Bob Schieffer of CBS's Face the Nation, web.archive.org. March 27, 2011.

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• No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say". "NBC News", www.nbcnews.com. August 27, 2013.

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• We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

  William Hague

  Rights, Democracy, Unions

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• This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

  Park Geun-hye

  Years, Yugoslavia, Iraq

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• We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, Would Be, Warning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

  John F. Kerry

  Mean, World, Dramatic

  "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Changed, Concerned

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• I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Military, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  Ariel Sharon

  Moving, Successful, Mass Destruction

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• The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

  Golda Meir

  Running, Fighting, Egypt

  Life Magazine (p. 32), October 3, 1969.

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• The Syrian war was started and fueled by three countries in the region, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey. They acted for the sake of political and economic dominance and in favor of Sunni Islam against the Alawite influence in the government of Syria.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Country, War, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

  Edward Luck

  Thinking, Middle East, Sensitive

  "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.

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• Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time.

  Donald Trump

  Watches, Clinton, Periods

  Source: time.com

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• Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

  Martin Rees

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Too Much

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• I think the foreign policy is really not Donald Trump administration concern. Like the Syria strike. I mean, it meant almost nothing. They hit an empty air base. Within a day, it was functioning again. Planes were flying off it. It was for a domestic show, you know - show what a tough guy I am; I'm not Barack Obama.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have defended Syria for a long time, so I was admiring Syria, I have admired your president very much. I hope at some point to be able to meet him and shake his hand. I think he is the greatest man in a very difficult period, and especially with what's going on right now, in terms of Lebanon and its relations with Syria. But absolutely, even from my perspective, and it shows you how the Zionist media around the world controls and affects all of us. Even those of us who are aware of it - it's subtly affecting.

  David Duke

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  "American White Supremacist David Duke: Israel Makes the Nazi State Look Very Moderate". www.memri.org. November 21, 2005.

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• We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should be aware of this. And it is the intelligentsia specifically that should keep this in mind and prevent society from radical steps and revolutions of all kinds. We've had enough of it. We've seen so many revolutions and wars. We need decades of calm and harmonious development.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Gay, Mind

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• In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ethnicity, Long, Thought Provoking

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