Syria Quotes - Page 6

• There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Isis, Two

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• One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9/11 that he was coming after the U.S.? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.

  Michael Morell

  Isis, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with - is that we will support those who take the fight to ISIS. That is why we have troops in Iraq that are helping to train and build back up the Iraqi military, why we have special operators in Syria working with the Kurds and Arabs, so that we can be supportive.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.

  Richard Schiff

  War, America, Iran

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

  Reza Aslan

  Keys, Goal, East

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• Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

  Elliott Abrams

  Population

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• Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

  John Gunther

  Coffee, Iraq, Orange

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• In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

  William Safire

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Crazy, Spring, War

  "Assad and Obama on Syria's civil war". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. September 15, 2013.

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• Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

  Paul Krugman

  Spring, Democracy, Middle East

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• If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

  Lindsey Graham

  Leadership, Reality, Isis

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• 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

  Iran, Hearing, Interviews

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• At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Lakes, Yield, Arabia

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter III, Section 8), circa 15 BC.

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• Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Iraq, Way

  "Colonel Gaddafi: A maverick veteran". news.bbc.co.uk. August 31, 1999.

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• I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Thinking, Israel

  "Obama Compares Iran Deal To A House Under Contract, Awaiting Appraisal". "The Two-Way" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 7, 2015.

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• In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Military, War

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• If you want peace and well-being to be in place in the Middle East and you want terrorism to be uprooted, then there's no path other than the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, you saw that in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen that the power that was able to help the people of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen in the face of terrorist groups was the Islamic Republic of Iran.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Peace, Islamic, Iran

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• ISIL presents a growing threat not only in Syria and Iraq, but throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and now in the United States as well. Terrorists and their enablers will continue to receive the unwavering attention of law enforcement and the intelligence community.

  Devin Nunes

  Europe, Law, Iraq

  "6 indicted in alleged plot to support ISIS, Al Qaeda". www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2015.

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• If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for a freer society and where people are repressed by a small group of ayatollahs. I see Syria, where we can see a similar desire of the people to be free. These two countries fund Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations and are hurting our efforts in Afghanistan and have been extremely harmful in Iraq. Then I also see large, important countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Strong, Hurt

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Europe, Oil, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

  Tony Abbott

  Responsibility, Iraq, Self

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

  Tony Abbott

  Numbers, Australia, Asylum Seekers

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.

  Tony Abbott

  Stress, War, People

  "Sticking to our Plan: two year anniversary of the Abbott Government". Joint Doorstop Interview, Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. September 7, 2015.

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• Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Forever, Middle East, Problem

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• Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves to stand up and try to overthrow him. That led to the chaos which allowed ISIS to come in and take advantage of that situation and grow more powerful.

  Marco Rubio

  Powerful, Isis, Space

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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