Bashir Assad Quotes

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

Nothing guides Russian policy so much as a desire for friendship with the United States.

I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia.

If America can have a great relationship with Russia and with China and with all countries, I'm all for that. That would be a tremendous asset.

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

America must never accept as a final fact the division between East and West …

China remains too important for America's national security to risk the relationship on the emotions of the moment.... No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied by tens of thousands of demonstrators.

The relations of our two countries rest on traditional bases, quite other than those with other nations, and are of commanding influence on the whole of the world!

Genuine association of interest on the part of the great powers must precede the transformation of the united nations military alliance into a political society of nations.

The Anglo-Americans want the balance of power in Eurasia. The only balance of power they can achieve now is the whole of Europe against Russia. The only choice for us is either to join this Western European bloc or join in with Russia.

The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.