Syrian Quotes - page 2

Syrian Tweeps: there is a conf on human rights in silicon valley in 2 days let's use the hashtag #Rightscon to pressure them to unblock us. (Bassel Khartabil)
Got a legal approve from the Syrian government for Aiki Lab the first hackerspace in the Arab world. starting very soon in Damascus. View quote
Bassel Khartabil
scs-net filter (Syrian version of the great firewall of china) is blocking everything. why we can't get a good internet connection in Syria? View quote
Bassel Khartabil
The Syrian war was started and fueled by three countries in the region, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey. They acted for the sake of political and economic dominance and in favor of Sunni Islam against the Alawite influence in the government of Syria. View quote
Burhan Sonmez
Syrian people have right to fight for democracy and freedom in their country but they don't need the penetration of foreign elements, fundamentalist ideologies and violence. View quote
Burhan Sonmez
Women and children are vulnerable to brutal violence and some have lost everything... We cannot ignore what is happening to the Syrian people. View quote
Justine Greening
Among those [Syrian] refugees are no doubt a significant number of ISIS terrorists. View quote
James Clapper
The Syrian Army is useless! Give me one brigade of the Basij, and I could conquer the whole country. View quote
Qasem Soleimani
We must put party politics to one side and focus on what really matters-the protection of Syrian civilians. View quote
Jo Cox
This is about a deterrence effect to stop the Syrian regime targeting their own civilians. I think it would be enforceable from the Mediterranean using US French and UK military capability already out there. It would mean the aerial bombardment of Syrian civilians would stop, and it would create space for peace talks. View quote
Jo Cox
Unless we act to end the slaughter of civilians in Syria by President Assad, Isis will continue to find a steady stream of recruits from the Syrian Sunni population driven to desperation and radicalisation. In this context no amount of military action against Isis will be able to eradicate them. ... As long as these attacks persist these forces will not be able to focus – as many want to – on freeing their country from the cancer of Isis. (Jo Cox)
If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you that just three would kill you, would you take a handful? That's our Syrian refugee problem. View quote
Donald Trump Jr.
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable. View quote
Jacob Lew
I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant. View quote
Moshe Sharett
The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq. View quote
Richard Engel
All ethnicities and groups in Syria should begin the process of reconstruction within a single unit under the Syrian flag. View quote
Mohammad Javad Zarif
The significant point to be noted about the Syrian Christians, however, is their sudden change of colour as soon as the Portuguese arrived on the scene. They immediately rallied round the Portuguese and against their Hindu neighbours, and when the Portuguese started pressurizing the Hindu Rajas for extraterritorial rights so that their co-religionists could be "protected”, the Syrian Christians evinced great enthusiasm everywhere. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
The "crisis” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is an economic crisis, which cannot be compared with the humanitarian crises in Gaza, Yemen, Libya, the Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq, Haiti, Mali, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, or Myanmar, among others. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving. View quote
Robert Fisk
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war. View quote
Robert Fisk
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar. (Robert Fisk)
The world was rightly horrified by America's recent blunder in bombing the Médecins sans Frontières' hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. But how many Syrian Kunduzes will result from Russian airstrikes if the Kremlin continues to favor bombs over guided missiles? View quote
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path. View quote
Walid Jumblatt
The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes. View quote
Walid Jumblatt
The core of the Syrian tragedy consists of the fact that Assad and ISIS represent the two faces of the same coin. Both want the Syrian people, or what is left of them inside the country, scripted out of the equation. Both have enough of a popular base to hang on for some more time even if they did not receive succor from the outside which they regularly do. At the same time neither is strong enough or is ever likely to have the popular base to impose its agenda on Syria. View quote
Amir Taheri