If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
Bashar al-AssadYou want me to believe American evidence and don't want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
Bashar al-AssadMany people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
Bashar al-Assad[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.
Bashar al-Assad