Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the mean….

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 ….

Two years and a half and Syria is still withstanding against the United States, the West, Saudi Arabia, the richest countries in this area, including….

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere..

The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That's the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don't throw mi….

Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists i….

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region..

In any war, people will pay the price..

It's not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it's not the fight of the government ; it's the fight of the country, of the Syrian people..

We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President..

We don't have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it's about different p….

[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later..

Even a president makes mistakes..

I cannot afford to make mistakes..

Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the a….

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people..

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before..

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, whic….

We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, ….

If we want to expect something from this [Barack Obama] administration, it is not to be weak, to be strong to say that "we don't have evidence," that….

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army i….