Bashar Al-Assad Quotes

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.

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.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

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

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

I cannot afford to make mistakes.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

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

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

In the End, a Lie Is a Lie.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

Armies are not only for offensives.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.

There can be no peace without unity.

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.

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Even a president makes mistakes.

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.