Quotes About Syrians

#1. 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.

Richard Engel

#2. Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.

Elliott Abrams

#3. The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Richard Engel

#4. These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

Kofi Annan

#5. the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria - at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything.

Richard Engel

#6. I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops. The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.

Adam Schiff

#7. We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

Yitzhak Rabin

#8. Russia would not support anything which would be actually imposed on Syrians.

Sergei Lavrov

#9. I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide.

Sergei Lavrov

#10. We've had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have - and Syrians - who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq.

Richard Armitage

#11. Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country, and Syrians should rightly demand that the perpetrators be held accountable.

Richard Engel

#12. Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

Shimon Peres

#13. 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

#14. The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

Walid Jumblatt

#15. It has a Nazi echo, doesn't it? The Jews had to wear that Star of David, and Donald Trump is saying all Syrians have to carry an ID card and they can, without warrant, go into any Syrian's home or a mosque.

George Takei

#16. I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

Ehud Olmert

#17. As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

Chris Christie

#18. What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

Sergei Lavrov

#19. We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

Gary Zukav

#20. A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.

Simon Kuznets

#21. The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale Turner

#22. I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

Kathleen Sebelius

#23. Sex as you like it is an animal right -- no mere civil liberty. Defend it with your beak and claw.

Irving Rosenthal

#24. I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Orlando Bloom

#25. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Madeleine L'Engle

#26. I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

Amy Irving