Syria Quotes - Page 16

• Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Long, Terrorism

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I'm going to continue to push for a no-fly zone and safe havens within Syria not only to help protect the Syrians and prevent the constant outflow of refugees, but to, frankly, gain some leverage on both the Syrian government and the Russians so that perhaps we can have the kind of serious negotiation necessary to bring the conflict to an end and go forward on a political track.

  Hillary Clinton

  Safe Haven, Government, Track

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I think we can take back Mosul, and then we can move on into Syria and take back Raqqa.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Thinking

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Once the ISIS threat has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria. We're hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  War, Party, Thinking

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2017.

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• We're hopeful that Russia will choose to play a constructive role in supporting ceasefires through their own Astana talks, but also, ultimately, through Geneva. And if we can achieve ceasefires in zones of stabilization in Syria, then I believe we will have the conditions to begin a useful political process.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  Believe, Hopeful, Political

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2017.

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• My understanding, I was not standing nearby, but my understanding is that President Xi Jinping said, "Well, no one should kill children." The Chinese have since issued their own statement on the Syria attack itself.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  Children, Understanding, Chinese

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.

  John S. Dickerson

  Simple, Office, Violent

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

  Bill Gates

  Past, People, Awful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Support, Littles, England

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Bombing, States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons.

  Noam Chomsky

  President, Lines, Weapons

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the countries that were attacked, none of them were Wahhabi Islamic fundamentalist countries. Those ones are supported, financed by the U.S., so there is a real collusion between radical Islam and capitalism. What is going on is really a different kind of battle.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Real, Islamic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• John Kerry tried to work with the Russians on Syria, and the man was honorable, because he was trying to do the right thing, and frankly, playing a very weak hand, a hand that was weak not because of him, okay. He did the best he could, but I will say this to his enormous credit: he never offered a dirty deal. You can have Ukraine if you only help us out on Syria. Never - he never did that.

  Daniel Fried

  Dirty, Men, Ukraine

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.

  Amos Oz

  Pain, War, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia. But what we don't need is to do that in a manner that seems to approve or not hold them accountable for some pretty wrong actions that they have taken across the past, starting in '08 with the invasion of Georgia and then in '14, the invasion of Crimea, and then subsequently, the invasion of the Donbass - and frankly, some of the way they have conducted their self in Syria.

  Philip M. Breedlove

  Moving, Taken, Past

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• We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt and in Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now, doing it quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Islamic, Egypt, Isis

  "Donald Trump Acceptance Speech Full Transcript" by Rajiv Poddar, scribie.com. July 23, 2016.

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• In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big, big reduction in violence, Iran was being choked by sanctions, Syria was somewhat under control. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region and the entire world. Libya is in ruins and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos. Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Iraq, Egypt

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• My administration is going to stop the tens of thousands of people coming in from Syria. We have no idea who they are, where they come from. There's no documentation. There's no paperwork. It's going to end badly folks. It's going to end very, very badly.

  Donald Trump

  Ideas, People, Documentation

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• This is eventually how Syria will be resolved - through a political settlement.

  Chuck Hagel

  Political, Settlement

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Country, Giving Up, Russia

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Iraq, Government, Iran

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent. I mean those who are fleeing from war, from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, parts of Nigeria. Welcoming them, in all of these cases, is our duty. For illegals, though, expulsion is needed.

  Matteo Salvini

  War, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iran, Soldier, Helping

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don't exist all over Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Borders, Hezbollah, Lebanon

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• [Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Borders, Hezbollah, Reason

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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