The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.