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

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

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.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.