We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don't expect.

The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.

[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.

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

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.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.