Walid Jumblatt Quotations

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.

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

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

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

There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Lebanon should not remain an open battlefield against Israel and this state-within-state status should end.

Let them hold the elections according to the electoral law they deem suitable, but we will not participate in the government.

Those involved, including some arrested, were found to be people working for Syria, including Syrian soldiers disguised as civilians.

This statement is the start of a suspicious campaign on the horizon in more than one place, and it aims to target the national and patriotic constants and drag the country to problems.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Either we have a full change or we don't,

Nowadays it has become more risky. They have listening devices stronger than the Lebanese Army. They have infiltrated everything.

This time this regime should change. This guy in Damascus (Assad) is sick. If he stays, we won't have stability in the Middle East.

This government was from the beginning discredited, and the murder of Hariri was the final blow to this government.

a decisive victory for the opposition and the Lebanese people.

independent Lebanon, a democratic Lebanon, with a good relationship with Syria.

If the process of dialogue will stay in deadlock, we have to stick to the street.

If there isn't a general deal between Israel and the Syrians sponsored by the Americans, as for the south of Lebanon and for the Golan Heights as well, everything can happen, ... And, of course, the battleground is going to be where? Lebanon.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Assad is playing with fire (with these burnings and riots). It can turn into massive violence around the Middle East. This is beyond irresponsible. These are reckless acts by a terrorist regime.

This political senility and this deception by the Syrian security apparatus is a laughable farce and at the same time it seems they will use all means, even security, to shake up security

It seems that through sending weapons and men and using some Syrian workers they (the Syrians) want to say that Lebanon will face chaos as a result of their departure from Lebanon.

If he acts like Saddam did, yes, we are heading to a situation similar to what happened in Iraq.

If he had any responsibility in the death of Hariri then he did the right thing by committing suicide.

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

No one can live under degradation.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.