Bashar al-Assad

“Syria is the heart of the Middle East. Everybody knows that. If the Middle East is sick, the whole world will be unstable.”

“I'm not a puppet. I was not made by the West to be a puppet in the West. I am Syrian. I was made in Syria.”

“No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.”

“We don't have a civil war, we have a war. It's a new kind of war.”

“The problem is not a civil war, the problem is terrorism.”

“The president's job is to unite the people, not to divide them. The president's job is not to be a head of a faction, or a party, or a sect. The president's job is to be a president for all the Syrians.”