We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

- Bashar al-Assad

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

- George J. Mitchell

My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.

- Najib Mikati

My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the international community, and Lebanon has to fulfill its commitments.

- Najib Mikati

The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

- Najib Mikati

Lebanon does not have a powerful army.

- Richard Engel

There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

- Rabih Alameddine

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

- Saad Hariri

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

- Walid Jumblatt

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

- Yitzhak Rabin