Bashar al Assad

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

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

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

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

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

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Firstly, it is through the growth of the economy itself, that’s the main source of additional resources. It is also the more effective use of existing resources, adjustment in some senses of our macro-economic plans and of course adjustments to our tax policy.

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

The world is changed by idealists.

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

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

The Drug War is an effort to stimulate fear of dangerous people from who we have to protect ourselves. It is also, a direct form of control of what are called “dangerous classes,” those superfluous people who don’t really have a function contributing to profit-making and wealth.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?

One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.

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.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres – economic, political and humanitarian – and has imposed itself on other states.