Top 22 Saad Hariri Quotes

Our problem with Israel is that its leaders always talk about war and security but never about peace.

The interference of Iran affects us all.

We believe that the Arab world has been there for centuries, and thousands of years, and it’ll keep on continuing being there. All we have to do is work together.

I have popular support.

I will not accept that a Lebanese political party participates in maneuvers that serve the interests of Iran.

Iran must stop meddling in the affairs of Arab countries, and we refuse to be taken by Iran to an axis against Arab countries.

We could do so much if we concentrated on the business community and created jobs. If we make this our focus, a stronger economy and politics will follow.

Hezbollah has a presence – it is in the government, and it enjoys support in the country – but this doesn’t mean that Hezbollah is in control of the entire Lebanon.

I have a lot of enemies: extremists and the Syrian regime.

In Lebanon, it’s never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.

We must not pay for the actions of Hezbollah.

If the U.S. decides Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, that does not mean that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Because the whole world is saying Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel.

It’s very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

If you want peace, you have to accept the other. Talk to the other, and accept that they have rights.

Hezbollah is in Syria and Iraq and Yemen, so people should not focus on Hezbollah that it’s a Lebanese entity only, but it’s something regional.

My job and my task as prime minister of Lebanon is to shield Lebanon from any instability like in Syria or Iraq or any other country that surrounds us. My task is to make sure that we have a country that is stable.

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don’t have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

Lebanon cannot resolve a question like Hezbollah which is in Syria, Iraq, everywhere because of Iran. It is a regional political solution that needs to be done.

Lebanon is a small country, and we have a saying: as long as you know your size, you know, just try to protect what you have.

I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.

I don’t operate under threats. Full stop. I don’t. I don’t buckle to pressure.

I am not against Hezbollah as a political party, but it should not be the cause of the destruction of Lebanon.