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 count….

The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public sup….

When you talk about humanitarian, it doesn't only mean to offer the people the help, the food, their necessary needs for their life. The first thing,….

I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this ….

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

In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons]..

The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civi….

My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on top of them - was to h….

Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convince….

There's a difference between responsibility of the policy and responsibility of the practice. In any practice, you have malpractice, that's another i….

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not..

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis..

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 Egy….

For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will….

We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament….

Politics is about realities, not logic..

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement..

[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid….

The United States doesn't have the will to work against al-Nusra or even ISIS, because they believe that this is a card they can use for their own ag….

If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world..

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal..