122 Quotes by Bashar al-Assad

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

There is no good war.

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

The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

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

I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.