Bashar al Assad

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

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

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

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

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

The big transnationals want to reduce freedom by undermining the democratic functioning of the states in which they’re based, while at the same time ensuring the government will be powerful enough to protect and support them.

Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

It is difficult for me to imagine what personal liberty is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

The ability to ignore unwanted facts is one of the prerogatives of unchallenged power. Closely related is the right to radically revise history.

I like beer

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.