Syria Quotes
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It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.
Louise Erdrich -
Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.
Pat Buchanan
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It's a bit questionable whether Turkey is a model country or not, since our government is supporting ISIS in Syria, since there are legislations that are not in line with democratic rules.
Burhan Sonmez -
60 percent of Syria is controlled either by ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations, organisations that have been recognised as terrorist by the United States, as well as other countries and the UN. It is them and not anyone else who have control over 60 percent of Syrian territory.
Vladimir Putin -
The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.
Vladimir Putin -
Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do not plan it for now. But we are thinking of how to intensify our work both with President al-Assad and our partners in other countries.
Vladimir Putin -
I look forward to the full cooperation of Syria in form as well as substance, ... but I have to say after what I've heard I'm not holding my breath.
Jack Straw -
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Walid Jumblatt
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There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way, but no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by Obama at me or by me at Obama, and I hope that never happens. Everything else is fantasy.
Vladimir Putin -
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
Vladimir Putin -
I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
Ehud Olmert -
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
Bashar al-Assad -
There is great concern in the European Union about the need for Syria to take much more action to control terrorism in its territory and from its territory.
Jack Straw -
I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.
Ehud Olmert
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
Bashar al-Assad -
It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
Jack Straw -
But Lebanon will never be ruled from Syria. This will no longer happen.
Rafik Hariri -
Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.
Ali Abdullah Saleh -
Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.
Alexander Haig -
There are some important questions for Syria to answer and to deal with.
Jack Straw
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We are comfortable that Syria is actively participating in the implementation of the resolution relevant to the investigation into the assassination of the former premier.
Igor Ivanov -
What is important ... is for Syria fully to cooperate over these questions that have been raised.
Jack Straw -
In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'
Conan O'Brien -
As far as 'Syria next on the list', we made clear that it is not.
Jack Straw