Bashar al Assad

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

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

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

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own… Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

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

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become!

We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

There was a recent study by the IMF which tried to estimate the subsidy that energy corporations get from governments. The total was colossal. I think it was around $5 trillion annually. That’s got nothing to do with markets and capitalism.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

The House Armed Services Committee a couple of years ago described the role of Congress as that of a sometimes querulous but essentially kindly uncle who complains while furiously puffing on his pipe but who finally, as everyone expects, gives in and hands over the allowance.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as ’embedded.’ To say, ‘I’m an embedded journalist’ is to say, ‘I’m a government Propagandist.

You should never be so high and mighty you can’t listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.