Top 251 Syrian Quotes & Sayings

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

We feel pain for every Syrian victim.

ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.

The fall of the Syrian regime is in the interest of America and Israel.

We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.

The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I'm President to help the Syrian people.

Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.

Some people think that the Syrian people are from another planet. On the contrary, I think that we all live inside the same boat, on the same planet. And the Syrian war affects everybody now, the whole world. There are Syrian refugees everywhere now. But it looks like nobody cares about civilians in Syria. They are suffering. There are hundreds of victims - innocent women, children, and old men who are hurt or killed every day - and no one cares about them.

Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.

The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

The Syrian people will never forget those who extended their hand to help them rid of their dictatorship. The Syrian people also would love to be friends with all nations. I think the new Syria will contribute greatly to the return of regional stability and the birth of common development with Arab nations and the region. The only exception is those countries that still harm the Syrian peoples and take some of their rights. We are looking for a region where cooperation, prosperity, and peace flourish.

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.

I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.

The problem in the Syrian opposition is not between Islamists and non-Islamists. It was the lack of any political experience after 50 years of no political experience. The problem was a lack of political organizations that are truly effective and powerful. This is still a challenge now; it is a weakness in the reality of Syrian political life.

We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?

The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us after we abandon them to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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.

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

I always say the Syrian problem as isolated case, as Syrian case, is not very complicated. What makes it complicated is the interference from the outside, especially the Western interference because it's against the will of the Syrian government, while the intervention of the Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah is because of the invitation of the Syrian government.

I always consider myself Syrian. I just happen to be born in Canada.

I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared to accept whatever the outcome of the intra-Syrian dialogue and the decision of the Syrian people is. But people are trying to decide and determine the outcome of the negotiation before even we agree to start the negotiations.

I think what we're hopeful is through this Syrian process, working with coalition members, working with the U.N., and in particular working through the Geneva process, that we can navigate a political outcome in which the Syrian people, in fact, will determine Bashar al-Assad's fate and his legitimacy.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators anymore ; that's why they have incubators abroad. They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don't have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don't have problems.

I have a lot of enemies: extremists and the Syrian regime.

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.

We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training.

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.

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

Ultimately, stability in Syria will come from decisions made on the ground by the Syrian people and by their immediate neighbors.

The members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria are also part of the Syrian people, and they have the right to exercise their democratic rights.

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

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

Disentangling this mess of foreign national interests is a necessary precondition to ensuring that there will be a future for Syria that is Syrian-led and Syrian-owned.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

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

When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn't matter if he's Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.

If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.

Kurds are going to have to strike a bargain with Bashar Assad that will keep them in the Syrian state and under some kind of Syrian authority, so that they can have the protection of international legitimacy and the Syrian army against the Turks. How they can bargain with Assad is unclear. What kind of negotiations they can come to, unclear. We will see whether they get something like the Kurds in Iraq, which is a large measure of autonomy, or something less than that. That will be one of the big negotiations to come out of this process.

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

In delivering the agreed objective of a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political process, the removal of Isis from its territory in Syria by Syrian forces, the Syrian army and the Syrian Free Army fighting alongside each other is an opportunity to bind wounds.

In the three years since Obama invited Russia to help him renege on his 'red line' on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, the Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented 136 occasions in which the Assad regime has deployed poison gas in its war on the Syrian people.

On the campaign trail, candidate Trump occasionally raised the idea of creating 'safe zones' for Syrian civilians.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.