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Quotes About Syrian

Behavior that had in the past been acceptable—being in contact with your family, being on the internet when you weren't supposed to—was suddenly grounds for intense suspicion. Not fighting was not an option. Not fighting other Syrian rebel groups, composed of Sunni Muslims, was not an option. Being a private citizen who stayed at home was not an option. The only option left to her looked to be escape.
~ Azadeh Moaveni
It's this weird binary where I'm getting media images and narratives thrown at me all the time through something I hold in my hand, and that's never happened to other generations. But also with this little object in my hand, I have the ability to document police brutality, or post about the Syrian conflict on Twitter.
~ Amanda Gorman
Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.
~ Donald Trump
The irony lost on all, though, is that the Syrian regime is quietly keeping alive the traditions that Moubayed lamented had vanished, if not through his preferred method of legalization, then at least by refraining from interfering in the private daily conduct and morality of its citizens. Moubayed told me that the regime, despite the furor caused by his article, had not reacted to it at all, either positively or negatively.
~ John R. Bradley
The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
~ Walid Jumblatt
Syrian travel has its interesting features, like travel in any other part of the world, and yet to break your leg or have the cholera adds a welcome variety to it.
~ Mark Twain
Conference of 1991, when Israel and its Arab neighbours began face–to–face talks to resolve the Palestinian Arab problem. Following the conference, the Syrian Government, headed by Hafez al–Assad, agreed to abandon two decades of implacable resistance to Jewish emigration. All 3,886Jews in Syria were free to leave–for anywhere but Israel.
~ Martin Gilbert
Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.
~ Arundhati Roy
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
~ Elliott Abrams
Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.
~ Ephrem the Syrian
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
~ Walid Jumblatt
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
~ Stephen Hadley
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
~ Stephen Hadley
You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.
~ Sergei Lavrov
Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy.
~ Hillary Clinton
Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .
~ Donald Trump
Alexander—a Syrian boy with a Greek name, now Caesar and heir to the throne. I can hear my father say, 'We are a long way from the days of the Divine Marcus.
~ Steven Saylor
Turkey wants to see Bashar al-Assad go and wants to kind of expand its sphere of influence into Turkey so its Ottoman glory or Ottoman past are once again project into the Syrian provinces. That's kind of what Turkey's vision is.
~ Richard Engel
The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us after we abandon them to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
~ Dan Crenshaw
The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.
~ Kellyanne Conway
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."
~ Ali Khamenei
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
~ Robert Fisk
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
~ King Hussein I