Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

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.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.

The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don't interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.

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.