Bashar Al-Assad Quotes

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

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

The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.

Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.

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.

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

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

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.

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

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

At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

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.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

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 would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

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

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

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.

You can forge anything these days, and we're living in a fake news era.

First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don't call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.

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

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

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.

[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.

We didn't say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.

You want me to believe American evidence and don't want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

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.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

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

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

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

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

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.

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

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

This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.

There's a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said "this is how we're going to kill the Syrian people."

Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.

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.

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

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