Syrian Conflict Quotes

I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.

In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.

Assad's suspected chemical weapons attack shows he is willing to go to barbaric lengths to hold onto power.

There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on.

I look at what the president [Barack Obama] it doing, it adds up to me. We just have to keep - try to get more support for those people on the ground in Syria and Iraq who have to actually physically take the territory back.

In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fighting would help tamp down the death toll that plays into the hands of ISIS and other Sunni militants who can position themselves as the only groups that are really defending the Sunni population.

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

Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.

It is in the interest of France that the United States and Russia speak to each other and act in good faith against the scourge of terrorism in Syria, and contribute with our country to stabilizing a region where uncontrolled migrant flows begin today.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and establish a new entity.

Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime from carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes against Syrian civilians and to halt the refugee flow out of Syria.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

Bashar al-Assad needs to be replaced, but he can't be replaced with another Bashar al-Assad.

This is eventually how Syria will be resolved - through a political settlement.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

There is no military solution to the challenges of Syria.

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

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

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the bar of [Syrian] depravity sinks lower.

Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.