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

I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.

Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don't have any ID.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said "we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want." Of course, you just ignore that.