If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

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

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.

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.