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

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

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they ha….

We're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened..

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

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

Armies are not only for offensives..

If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore..

How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everythi….

You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely….

You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while….

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have po….

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'….

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

Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] ar….

We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to c….

That's all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry]..

You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country..

We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts..

Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this ….

I'm not talking about him; I'm talking about the countries that go to support [Antonio] Guterres plan, because he needs the support of other countrie….