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.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading ? By barbecuing heads ? By eating the hearts of your victim ? Is that opposition ? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September ? Opposition ? Even if they're not Americans, I know this, but some of them I think have nationality - I think one of them has American nationality. Do you call him opposition or terrorist ?

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.