At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

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.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I'm President to help the Syrian people.