We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

[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.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don't get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

In any war, people will pay the price.