Bashar al Assad

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

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

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.

The only way a kid is going to practise is if it’s total fun for him… and it was for me.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal.

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

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

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me old,when I would NEVER call him short and fat?Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

When I see people go at the President, why not try love, for one person to stand up against all odds and just hug somebody the way that Alice Johnson hugged her family when she got out of jail?.

About half of what are called US exports to Mexico are intrafirm transfers of this sort. They don’t enter the Mexican market, and there’s no meaningful sense in which they’re exports to Mexico. Still, that’s called ‘trade.’

If you do what you believe in, you’re strong. It’s when you don’t do what you believe in that you’re weak. And we are strong.

I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.

Armies are not only for offensives.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.