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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
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[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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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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If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
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Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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We're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened.
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Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.
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Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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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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In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
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Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.
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Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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We always say we have wishful thinking that the Unites States would be unbiased, respect the international law, doesn't interfere in other countries around the world, and of course to stop supporting terrorists in Syria.
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The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion it will bite you someday.
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If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides you cannot take sides only with one party.
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