Syria Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I'll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into Crimea and Ukraine. What reckless is is inviting Russia into Syria to team with Iran. That is reckless. And the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the reckless people.

  Chris Christie

  Team, Russia, Ukraine

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

  Ted Cruz

  Airports, Isis, Iraq

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.

  Benjamin Carson

  Christian, People, Lebanon

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I would have said get out of Syria; get out - if we didn't have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can't just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn't care. It was hand-to-hand combat.

  Donald Trump

  Hands, Years, Care

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Isis, Organization

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

  Barack Obama

  Apology, Iraq, Way

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.

  Michael Totten

  Israel, Doe, Digging

  "Syria Invades Lebanon". www.michaeltotten.com. July 9, 2007.

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• Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Israel, Isis

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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 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 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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• We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Iraq, Tunnels, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction of lives and hopes, the emotional trauma, and the economic, social, and political marginalization of the displaced, the human insecurity, with real and potentially devastating consequences over generations, in ever-widening arenas of conflict. We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Real, Emotional, Rights

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• Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  United States, Want, Bases

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• We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Differences, Appreciate

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• As far as Paris goes, we don't know for sure yet how these guys communicate among themselves and how they communicated back to the ISIS leadership in Iraq and Syria, but I'm fairly confident we're going to learn they used these encrypted communication applications that have commercial encryption and are extremely difficult for companies to break - and which the companies have made the decision not to produce a key for.

  Michael Morell

  Communication, Keys, Isis

  Source: www.politico.com

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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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• If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

  Robert Baer

  Egypt, Want, Disappear

  "Extraordinary rendition: a backstory". www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

  Pope Francis

  Middle East, World, Beloved

  "Pope Leads Prayer Vigil For Peace In Syria". www.npr.org. September 8, 2013.

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• As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Government, Self

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• I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that these terrorists are not very sophisticated.

  Dana Milbank

  Daughter, Smart, Ocean

  "How to talk to your child about the Islamic State". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the language of Quran, and they know Islam better than us, let's follow them. So they simply follow them.

  Najibullah Quraishi

  Believe, Thinking, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. In Libya, the country must first of all be stabilized to stop IS. This means supporting the Libyan government, including in terms of security. We don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past in that country. The situation is extremely dangerous and the next days could be decisive.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Strong, Mistake

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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