[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.

We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn't send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

The first thing Syrian refugees want is to be able to live within Syria. That means help, humanitarian help, the way we understand it, food, medical care, any other, let's say, basics for the daily life.