“Everything that happened to you is a page that’s been turned and is done with.”

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate.

On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere else.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read:

I am according to my slave’s expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

One doesn’t need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt.

Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.

I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:

Anyway, I just haven’t been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.

I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

For years the league has thought I’ve been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.