Bashir Assad Quotes

It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.

If we always looked to contemporary public opinion we would be a slaveholding British colony today.

Behold! in Liberty’s unclouded blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.

I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.

I do not think I have the right to determine the political future of Syria, be it with or without al-Assad. This is for the Syrians themselves to decide. Nobody has the right to claim the rights that belong to the people of another country.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

We cannot decide for the American people.

If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy. The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.

The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.

We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope and empowerment and radical chutzpah that the founding generation had and intended us to have.

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

Of all the nations in the world, the people of the United States like freedom maybe a little better than anybody else.

Free people will set the course of history.

What I would ask the leaders to do is to better understand the American people. I would insist that the leaders have town meetings and meet the people and listen to them and find out what is on their minds.

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?