[Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia] are here because they could offer very essential and important help, because the situation that we are facing now is not only about a few terrorists from within Syria; it's like international war against Syria.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

[Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty, our independence, while if you want to talk about world red lines, the United States used depleted uranium in Iraq, Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody said anything. What about the red lines ? We don't see red lines. It's political red lines.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.