Syria Quotes - Page 6

• I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Country, War, Turkeys

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think the president's [Barack Obama] position has been very clear on Syria. He wants more aggressive, he's put the Special Ops on the ground, in fact one of the Republican criticisms is he's got thousands of Americans there. We just don't call them troops on the ground, we don't admit to it. But they are there.

  Juan Williams

  Thinking, Special, Criticism

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops. The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Iraq, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'll tell you whose view on [Bashar] Assad is the same as mine. It's Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel doesn't have a dog in that fight because Assad is a puppet of Iran, a Shia radical Islamic terrorist, but at the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn't want to see Syria governed by ISIS.

  Ted Cruz

  Dog, Islamic, Fighting

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Fighting, Years

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• We have to create a process which has legitimacy for the people of Syria. And we have to have a process where the Russians and the Iranians and the neighbors - all of them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, a very complicated brew - that you have to bring them together and they can find agreement. That's the fundamental premise of the Geneva Communique that you will have, by mutual consent, a process of transition.

  John F. Kerry

  Agreement, People, Together

  Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe, 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.

  John F. Kerry

  Choices, Majority, Minorities

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• You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.

  Bill Gates

  Refugee Crisis, Growth, Cost

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

  Samantha Power

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.

  Samantha Power

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

  Samantha Power

  Night, Thinking, Bed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it is a good thing that the United States will now be a party to the talks, to resolve a metastasizing crisis in Syria, which will destabilize Europe.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Party, Thinking, Europe

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: time.com

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• There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Iran, Hezbollah

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.

  John F. Kerry

  Mean, Focus, Not Happy

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.

  Susan Rice

  United States, Done, Isil

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.

  Susan Rice

  Spring, War, Government

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There's no UN resolution that allows the United States to carry out operations in Syria. You'll remember that in Libya in 2011 there was a great hoopla made about the importance of getting a UN resolution. Here there was no attempt to get any resolution. They simply bombed in Syria.

  Vijay Prashad

  United States, Remember, Resolution

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.

  Mitt Romney

  Israel, Iran, Sea

  Source: genius.com

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• Seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for America.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Priorities, Assad

  Source: genius.com

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• I believe that Assad must go. I believe he will go. But I believe - we want to make sure that America has the relationships of friendship with the people that take his place, steps that in the years to come we see Syria as a friend, and Syria as a responsible party in the Middle East.

  Mitt Romney

  Party, Believe, Years

  Source: genius.com

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• I had a chance to talk with President [Vladimir] Putin and he clearly said to me very directly, "I will think about that. I will think about this challenge of how we win." Look, this is not easy for Putin. Everybody says, "Oh, Putin's made a big move." Well, Putin is [in Syria] now; and if he wants to fight ISIL alone, that's a challenge, folks.

  John F. Kerry

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

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• We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Brotherhood, Kind, Terrorism

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Vices, Majority

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Two, Government

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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