You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country.

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.

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

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.

We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria ; they delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.