Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

Hizbullah is not a militia.