Walid Jumblatt Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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

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

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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

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

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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

No one can live under degradation. — Walid Jumblatt

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

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

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt

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. — Walid Jumblatt