Bashar al Assad

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

Armies are not only for offensives.

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

I’m sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don’t eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindsets of the youth of today.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It’s a neutral instrument.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940’s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

We’re going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay. And the reason they’re going to pay and the way they’re going to pay, Bob, is this. We have a trade deficit now with Mexico of $58 billion a year. The wall is going to cost $10 billion a year. That’s what it’s going to cost. It’s going to be a powerful wall. It’s going to cost $10 billion.

It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.