Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

[Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty, our independence, while if you want to talk about world red lines, the United States used depleted uranium in Iraq, Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody said anything. What about the red lines ? We don't see red lines. It's political red lines.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

[Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia] are here because they could offer very essential and important help, because the situation that we are facing now is not only about a few terrorists from within Syria; it's like international war against Syria.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

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.