Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously. – Bashar al-Assad
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. – Bashar al-Assad
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. – Bashar al-Assad
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine. – Bashar al-Assad
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950