Bashir Assad Quotes

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

Syria: It’s a messy civil war and we should not be involved in it.

Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the bar of [Syrian] depravity sinks lower.

Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.

We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.

On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there.

What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and that Iran and Russia cannot be granted a sphere of influence in Syria, and that we will not sit down at the negotiating table to help broker Assad's victory in this fight.

Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?

Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.

As was true in Iraq and Libya, the United States has no credible government or leader able to bring order, security, and freedom to the people of Syria if Assad is overthrown.

Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy.

It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case.