We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria..

[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don't have to interfere in any other country. B….

For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they ….

This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their ….

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 h….

Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said "we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything….

[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 b….

The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots..

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged..

Hizbullah is not a militia..

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me..

Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that "don't dea….

We don't discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don't have it. It's a Syr….

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, wh….

I never rejected any responsibility, but that depends on the decision..

We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time..

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what ….

Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad..

[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident..

A bomb is a bomb, what's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it..

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 r….