If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

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