Syria Quotes - Page 17

• Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Advice, Peaceful, Solutions

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you're going to have presidential elections.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Government, Presidential

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. 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.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, People, Support

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Army, Land

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Two years and a half and Syria is still withstanding against the United States, the West, Saudi Arabia, the richest countries in this area, including Turkey, and, taking into consideration what your question implies, that even the big part or the bigger part of the Syrian population is against me, how can I withstand till today ? Am I the superhuman or Superman, which is not the case !

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Years, Turkeys

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.

  Joshua Landis

  Country, Grief, Architecture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's quite clear the Syrian regime in Syria, as the Iraqi regime in Iraq is benefiting from America's effort to destroy opposition forces in both countries. And there aren't any other rebel forces that one can foresee on the horizon that will be able to take Eastern Syria that's now occupied by ISIS.

  Joshua Landis

  Country, Effort, Rebel

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Looks, Should

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.

  Bashar al-Assad

  United States, Weapons, Firsts

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Even if you want to take the American story, they say we used chemical weapons the same day the team or the investigation team came to Syria ; is it logical ? It's not logical. Even if a country or army wanted to use such weapon, they should have waited a few days till the investigation finished its work. It's not logical, the whole story doesn't even hold together.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Team, Army

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.

  Julian Assange

  Country, People, Fleeing

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I also think regime change in Syria is a bad idea. And that's an ongoing question. It's one of the things I like about Donald Trump, one of the reasons I endorsed him is he thinks regime change is a mistake. But John Bolton thinks completely the opposite. They are diametric opposites.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don't expect.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Talking, Somewhere Else, Different

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Sometimes, Strikes, Terrorist

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Iran, Iraq, Yemen

  "Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Picked By Trump To Be Defense Secretary". Interview with Steve Inskeep, gpbnews.org. December 2, 2016.

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• Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that's called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You're right about this. It's going to be direct support.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Islamic, Iraq, Support

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Wmd, Israel, Agreement

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Sadness, Thinking, Kind

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria ; they delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Team, Red, Als

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience.

  Van Jones

  Crazy, Stuff, Sober

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• We've been talking about the Syrian refugee crisis a lot, in the news in the U.K. and possibly the U.S., but it isn't the only refugee crisis that is happening at this minute. There's something like 22 million refugees in the world. There are people from Eritrea, Afghanistan, Syria, and so many other places where people are living in complete turmoil.

  Nadine Shah

  People, World, Crisis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Today, World

  "Mike Pence Says Trump Never Said That. Well, He Did" by Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

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• We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but also enemies like Iran and Syria. They have to have buy-in into that process.

  Barack Obama

  Egypt, Iran, Turkeys

  Source: www.politico.com

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• My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on top of them - was to have dialogue, to fight terrorists, and to reform as a response at the very beginning, response to the allegations, let's say, at that time, that they needed reform in Syria, we responded.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Fighting, Decision, Reform

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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