Ahmed Zewail Quotes

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

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.

The deplorable Syrian refugee crisis was created because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started a war on his people, and the international community refused to confront him.

There are now two Syrias. One is run by men who fight for God, not democracy. The other is ruled by a secular but authoritarian regime accused of many crimes against its people. The choice between the two will not be decided at the polls.

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

Syria has become the great tragedy of the century—a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

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

As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.

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.

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

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.

There is a risk that overt American support for Guaido could shore up Maduro's base and trigger displays of military force, potentially plunging Venezuela into a civil war.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

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

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.