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

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.

I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.

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

Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.

The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I'm President to help the Syrian people.

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.