Bashar al Assad

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

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

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

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

WE are good, and THEY are evil. That useful principle trumps virtually any argument. Analysis of commentary and much of scholarship reveals that its roots commonly lie in that crucial principle, which is not argued but asserted.

I have the greatest supporters in the world. By the way they’re the smartest, they’re the hardest working, they pay taxes.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to these policies. As is most of the population.

[on Michelle Obama] She’s fundamentally honest – goes out there, speaks her mind, jokes. She doesn’t parse her words or select them with an antenna for political correctness.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

By the autumn of this year, additional measures should be introduced which will stabilize the situation on the market.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.