Quotes from Bashar al-Assad

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

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

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

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

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.

Tayyip ErdoÄŸan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality.

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

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

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

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

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

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

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

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

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

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

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

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

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.