Top 100 Bashar Assad Quotes
#1. Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.
Hillary Clinton
#2. Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choice between Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda.
Francois Hollande
#3. I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.
Rand Paul
#4. We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).
Tom Segev
#5. I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#6. I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on [Bashar] Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself.
Hillary Clinton
#7. 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
#8. Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves to stand up and try to overthrow him. That led to the chaos which allowed ISIS to come in and take advantage of that situation and grow more powerful.
Marco Rubio
#9. We have to get rid of ISIS first. After we get rid of ISIS, we'll start thinking about it. But we can't be fighting [Bashar] Assad. And when you're fighting Assad, you are fighting Russia, you're fighting - you're fighting a lot of different groups.
Donald Trump
#10. The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.
Rand Paul
#11. I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow.
Rand Paul
#12. Bashar Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.
Marco Rubio
#13. We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting ISIS. Russia is fighting now ISIS. And Iran is fighting ISIS.
Donald Trump
#14. The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now.
Rand Paul
#15. 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
#16. [Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor.
Garry Kasparov
#17. Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?
Elliott Abrams
#18. Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#19. I think [Bashar] Assad is a bad guy, a very bad guy, all right?
Donald Trump
#20. I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - into the war against [Bashar] Assad. By pushing Assad back, we did create a safe space.
Rand Paul
#21. 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
#22. In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.
Francois Hollande
#23. I don't understand this thing about [Bashar] Assad. He has to go. Assad is aligned with Iran and Russia. The one thing we want to prevent is we want to prevent Iran being able to extend a Shia crescent all across the Middle East. Assad has got to go.
John Kasich
#24. President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.
Richard Engel
#25. Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#26. 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
#27. History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
Bashar Al-Assad
#28. 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.
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#29. Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition.
Corey Flintoff
#30. 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
#31. The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
Bashar Al-Assad
#32. We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars ... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.
Bashar Al-Assad
#33. People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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#34. The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.
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#35. I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.
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#36. You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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#37. Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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#39. Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
Bashar Al-Assad
#40. Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
Bashar Al-Assad
#41. Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.
George Galloway
#42. You have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. When there is divergence between your policy and the people's beliefs and interests, you will have this vacuum that creates disturbance.
Bashar Al-Assad
#43. It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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#44. I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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#45. 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.
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#46. As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own ... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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#48. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#50. Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.
Bashar Al-Assad
#51. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#52. Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.
Bashar Al-Assad
#53. IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.
Tariq Ramadan
#54. Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
Bashar Al-Assad
#55. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#56. The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.
Bashar Al-Assad
#57. Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.
Bashar Al-Assad
#58. Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
Bashar Al-Assad
#59. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#60. Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.
Bashar Al-Assad
#61. It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
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#62. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#63. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#64. We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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#66. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#67. Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
Bashar Al-Assad
#68. It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
Bashar Al-Assad
#69. We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
Bashar Al-Assad
#70. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#71. There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.
Francois Hollande
#73. Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
Bashar Al-Assad
#74. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#76. Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
David Ignatius
#77. I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?
Chris Matthews
#78. America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.
Bashar Al-Assad
#79. The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.
Bashar Al-Assad
#80. When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
Bashar Al-Assad
#81. There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.
Bashar Al-Assad
#82. Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
Bashar Al-Assad
#83. It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.
Robert Fisk
#85. The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
Bashar Al-Assad
#86. Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
Bashar Al-Assad
#87. You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Bashar Al-Assad
#88. A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad.
Hassan Nasrallah
#89. The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
Bashar Al-Assad
#90. The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Bashar Al-Assad
#91. In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
Bashar Al-Assad
#92. Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
Bashar Al-Assad
#93. It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
Bashar Al-Assad
#94. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#95. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#96. Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Bashar Al-Assad
#97. Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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#99. Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.
Bashar Al-Assad
#100. No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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