If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
Bashar al-AssadAmerica must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.
Bashar al-AssadI will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
Bashar al-AssadYou cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
Bashar al-Assad