I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

We don't have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it's about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn't have it. He didn't present it because he doesn't have it, Kerry doesn't have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.