George Osborne Quotes

We don't see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there.

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

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

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.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

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

To destroy the Islamic State, you have to fix Syria. You have to look at the reasons that created the Islamic State. This is a huge task.

There are still plenty of fighting forces inside of Syria who want to see Assad go. We should have been helping them from the very beginning.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad will inevitably go down. And its collapse will be loud not only in Syria but across the Arab world.

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.

I've been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.

In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.

If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.

Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I felt we had to do something in Syria.

Back in August 2013, when Obama entertained the White House press corps in the Rose Garden to explain that he wasn't quite as eager to upbraid Bashar Assad as he might have inadvertently led them earlier to believe, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees counted about two million Syrians in its refugee statistics.

The U.S. would still like to see Assad go at some point. That would be our desired outcome.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.

Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.

A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad.

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

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.