It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

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.

[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

If we want to expect something from this [Barack Obama] administration, it is not to be weak, to be strong to say that "we don't have evidence," that "we have to obey the international law", that "we have to go back to the Security Council and the United Nations".