Bashar Assad Quotations

We cannot accept what we see on our television every day of the bombing of innocent civilians. There are hundreds now every day.

must understand we take his lack of action seriously.

If these few meters are not a problem, as they say, why don't they go back to the June 4, 1967, line?

I have declared that Syria is innocent of this crime, and I am ready to follow up action to bring to trial any Syrian who could be proved by concrete evidence to have had connection with this crime,

Bush is an obstacle in securing peace in Middle East

We must face this situation with great awareness, responsibility and defiance.

is committed to continue in the same way that President Assad was following.

Such use of this report will have big, serious repercussions on the already tense situation which our region goes through, at a time we are more in need to have objective and constructive positions that would help the countries of the region to achieve stability,

We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of our territory nor do we accept our sovereignty to be impinged on,

An improved administration is the key goal of this process. ... We need (change) today more than ever.

there will be Arab popular resistance anyway and this has begun.

It should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that,

not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.

No threats will prevent us from continuing the struggle to liberate the occupied Arab territories and establish a just and durable peace in the region,

The man who has become president is the same man who was a doctor and an officer and first and foremost is the citizen.

The ultimate objective of all this is the destruction of Arab identity; for the enemies of the Arab nation are opposed to our possessing any identity or upholding any creed that could protect our existence and cohesion, guide our vision and direction, or on which we can rely in our steadfastness,