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I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country. — Thomas De Maiziere

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance. — John Barrasso

One of the CNN guys was literally yelling. How can you say that? It's too dangerous for us? We still have people in Syria! — Jack McDevitt

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum. — Richard Engel

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. — Ed Markey

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria. — Robert Fisk

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria. — Susan Rice

Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately. — Meghan Daum

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria. — Michelle Dockery

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory. — Kofi Annan

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Obama Authorizes IS Recon Flights in Syria — Anonymous

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely. — James G. Stavridis

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. — Bashar Al-Assad

Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon. — Hassan Nasrallah

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East. — Ahmed Zewail

Still people want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria. — Rand Paul

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States. — Yitzhak Rabin

Today Syria, tomorrow your country. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah. — Richard Engel

Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President. — George Galloway

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya. — Fareed Zakaria

It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked. — Michael D. Weiss

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat. — Anthony Zinni

[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell. — Bashar Al-Assad

The refugee in Syria doesn't benefit more if you conserve your kindness only for her and withhold it from your neighbor who's going through a divorce. — Brene Brown

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time. — Joakim Zander

The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. — Elliott Abrams

If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone? — Wayne LaPierre

Finally, at two minutes to three, in the sweltering heat of a Mesopotamian summer afternoon, I crossed the no-man's land into Syria. — William Dalrymple

I am part of a network of people monitoring what's happening at ancient sites in Iraq and Syria - from space. We can see clearly the destruction. — Sarah Parcak

Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan. — Yitzhak Rabin

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq. — Sam Brownback

Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States. — David Ignatius

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. — Bashar Al-Assad

Sovereignty cannot be a shield for tyrants to commit wanton murder, or an excuse for the international community to turn a blind eye to slaughter. — Barrack Obama

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria. — Bruce Braley

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering. — Aysha Taryam

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise. — Elliott Abrams

The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

Hezbollah is not a mammoth force, there is only so much they can do in Syria. Iranian role more critical for the regime. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot. — Richard Engel

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. — Mitt Romney

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country. — John Kasich

You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line. — Ted Cruz

There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience. — Bashar Al-Assad

St. Isaac of Syria says, "Anything that is easily found is also easily lost, whereas what is found after much labor will be guarded with vigilance."37 — Joseph Huneycutt

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war. — Richard Engel

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting. — John Kasich

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world — Pope Francis

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response. — Hassan Nasrallah

We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe. — Andrea Tantaros

Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims. — Elliott Abrams

He sold Syria way better than he sold this. — Bill Maher

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. — Ridley Scott

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

Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria. — Ali Babacan

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight. — Paul Krugman

We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria. — Sergei Lavrov

Biden said that in Syria the US had found that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers. — Patrick Cockburn

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. — Richard Engel

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran — Wesley Clark

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya. — Matteo Renzi

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. — Ehud Olmert

The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone. — Jeb Bush

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable. — John Bolton

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. — Rand Paul

No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria, — Kenji Goto

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. — Bill Kristol

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation. — Francois Hollande

I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria. — Martin Schulz

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria. — Garry Kasparov

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. — Henry A. Kissinger

each civilized person in the world should admit that he has two home countries: the one he was born in, and Syria . — Andrea Parrot

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble. — John Gunther

If we topple [Bashar] Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests. — Ted Cruz

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq. — Francois Hollande

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism — Walid Muallem

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. — Bashar Al-Assad

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded. — George Galloway

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims. — Dalia Mogahed

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself. — Barack Obama

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle ... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect. — Walid Jumblatt

The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security. — Ted Cruz

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. — Ismail Haniyeh

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran. — Rebecca MacKinnon

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values. — Barack Obama

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria. — Douglas Feith

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. — Lindsey Graham

We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad. — Adel Al-Jubeir

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought. — Prince Charles

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either. — Rand Paul

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. — Elliott Abrams

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. — Nancy Gibbs

If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general. — David Ignatius