Bashar al Assad

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

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

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

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 to resist.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

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

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

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

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Distress is so severe that among white middle-aged Americans, mortality is actually increasing, something unheard of in functioning societies apart from war or pestilence. There are similar phenomena in Europe under the ‘business first’ (‘neoliberal’/’austerity’) assault.

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Major military operations, particularly involving Russian armed forces, have ended. There isn’t even a need for them anymore.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean… Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.

When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when a million people die, it’s a statistic.

It’s not a very big thing to say, ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t.

Naturally, any conqueror is going to play one group against another. For example, I think about 90% of the forces that the British used to control India were Indians.