Bashar al Assad

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

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

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

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

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

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.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

The U.S. war-so-called war against terror has been a smashing success. There was a small group up in the tribal areas of mostly Pakistan and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, and we have succeeded in spreading it over the whole world.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

So the idea that Europe should exploit Africa for Europe’s reconstruction passed without comment. This is just deeply imbedded in the consciousness of what’s sometimes called white supremacy which is an extraordinary doctrine.

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.- Joseph Stalin

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

Saudi Arabia itself has one of the most grotesque human rights records in the world. The ISIS beheadings, which shock everyone-I think Saudi Arabia is the only country where you have regular beheadings. That’s the least of it.

As yet we do not plan to withdraw these forces. But I direct your attention to the fact that I did not call these bases by any other name – I called them bases. We are not building long-term military structures there and if we need to, we could withdraw our military personnel very quickly, without incurring any financial losses.

The Presbyterian Church took a very strong stand on a boycott on the divestment – there are no sanctions…they did it the way it’s effective. They concentrated on the occupied territories and on U.S. multinationals participating in the occupied territories.

If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

Nationalizing the whole oil sector would be a difficult and highly dangerous process, which could have negative consequences not only for the sector but for the whole economy.