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

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
Statesperson
Sham city
Assad
Concerned
Changed
Syria

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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.
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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
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People do not only live on interests they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.
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We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don't call butcher you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
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I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world they're not.
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I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.
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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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There is no such things as Islamic terrorism, because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term Islamic terrorism has become widespread.
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.
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Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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