Bashar al Assad

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

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

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

Hizbullah is not a militia.

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

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.

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

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

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

America will start winning again, winning like never before.

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.

Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They’ve all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don’t know what they’re talking about.

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

It’s the first time in American history that a candidate [Sanders] probably could have won, if it hadn’t been for party managers who kept him out, with no funding from the corporate sector, and no funding from the wealthy, and no media support.

Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?

So investors don’t go down to the television studio and make sure that the local talk show host or news director is doing what they want. On the other hand, there are other complex mechanisms which make it fairly certain that they will do what the owners and investors want.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.