Rafik Hariri Quotations

made it very clear ... that the United States is engaged in the peace process.

I think we will soon be able to prove the contrary.

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

We hope that uncovering the truth behind Hariri's murder will show people that you can't get away with murder in Lebanon. The international community hopes to see an end to the series of brutal attacks including Chidiac's.

was organized by Syrian and Lebanese security officials.

We should think of the problems of the people who gave us all this confidence, and I'm proud, but I feel responsible.

We would like to see the United States play a more effective role to push the peace process forward,

But Lebanon will never be ruled from Syria. This will no longer happen.

could not have been taken without the approval of top-ranked Syrian security officials and could not have been further organized without the collusion of their counterparts in the Lebanese security forces.

Right now we have to think of our country,

affirms to the Lebanese that he will continue to shoulder the responsibility in safeguarding the constitution and the laws.

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

The elections are behind us and we don't see anything in front of us but the future of Lebanon,

The Lebanese people voted this time for change, ... So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

We dont think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but well not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.