Bashar al-Assad famous quotes

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Crazy #Government #People

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

#People #Decision #Political

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Diversity #Fabric #Social

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Mean #Worry #Doe

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

#Eugenics #Israeli Occupation #Lebanon

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Israel

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.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Government #Able #Return

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Israel #Threat #Inception

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Thinking #Saving #Captains

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Made #Syria

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.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Mean #Israel #Way

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

#Islamic #Terrorism #Term

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

#Country #Doubt #Able

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

#Mold #Interest #Wanted

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Israel #Public Opinion #Doe

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

#Country #Iraq #Able

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

#War #Language #Killing

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

#Mistake #Israel #Doe

[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#People #Enemy #Hell

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#People #Occupation #Problem

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Harmony #Interest #Israeli

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Country #President #Force

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Middle East #East #Middle

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Mind #Reform #Institutions

[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Jesus #Way #Principles

Hizbullah is not a militia.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Militia

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

#America #Fit

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Changed #Syria #Concerned

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

#Country #America #Citizens

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Agreement #Defense #Logical

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.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Equality #Land #Iraq

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Iraq #Britain

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Israel #Establishment #Threat

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Views #Point Of View #Stem

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Country #Lebanon #Resistance

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.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Country #Powerful #Israel

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.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#War #Mean #Way

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

#Hair #Doe #Natural

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Iraq #Facts #Disaster

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Israel #Should #Treachery

Armies are not only for offensives.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Army #Offensive

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Land #Issues

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Real #Believe #Lebanon