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Egypt
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Then
Unstable
If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
- Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Country
Divided
Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.
- Ahmed Zewail
Need
Correct
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.
- Ahmed Zewail
Will
Islamic
Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.
- Ahmed Zewail
New
Nation
Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.
- Ahmed Zewail
Think
I Think
I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
- Ahmed Zewail
Been
Enriched
Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.
- Ahmed Zewail
Encountered
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
- Ahmed Zewail
Aware
Take
The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.
- Ahmed Zewail
Nation
Fought
Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.
- Ahmed Zewail
Education
Rather
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
- Ahmed Zewail
United
Even
Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.
- Ahmed Zewail
Education
Regime
In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.
- Ahmed Zewail
Middle
Which
In addition to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which is crucial to U.S. interests both domestically and in the Middle East, the U.S. has had and will continue to need Egypt's collaboration in the war on terrorism.
- Ahmed Zewail
Capital
Latent
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.
- Ahmed Zewail
Like
Began
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
- Amin Maalouf
Young
Though
Egypt wants to be young again. Israel must show it never grew old. Egypt wants to wake up and dream again. Israel must learn to dream though it cannot sleep.
- Andre Aciman
Memoir
Very
As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'
- Andre Aciman
Finally
Remain
My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.
- Andre Aciman
War
Armed
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
- Anthony Eden
Business
Iran
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.
- Cynthia P. Schneider
Almost
Certainly
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
- John Bolton
Rome
Civilization
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
- John Henrik Clarke
Law
Largest
Israel made peace with Egypt, the largest Arab State. There are militant Islamists there, but there is also law. There are agreements and also defense arrangements there.
- Ayman Odeh
Bad
Very
I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
- Bassem Youssef
Think
I Think
I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
- Bassem Youssef
Famous
Making
It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!
- Bassem Youssef
Which
Journeys
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.
- Ben Nicholson
Die
Before
Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.
- Benny Hinn
Rest
Becoming
Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.
- Hesham Qandil
Think
United States
I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.
- Hesham Qandil
Values
Discover
An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
- Hosni Mubarak
Muslim
Brothers
Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
- Ian Lustick
Generation
Mandate
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
- Ilan Stavans
Zionist
Enemies
Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.
- Ismail Haniyeh
Book
Think
I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.
- Carolyn See
Through
About A Year
I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
- James Luceno
United States
United
Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.
- Jehane Noujaim
Behind
Muslim
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
- Elliott Abrams
Civilization
Left
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
- Fidel Castro
My Life
Been
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
- Lara Logan
Will
Which
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.
- Fred Saberhagen
Mosque
Wrote
'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
- G. Willow Wilson
Love
Worth It
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
- Magdi Yacoub
Loved
Greece
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
- Michelle Paver
Excited
About
We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.
- Mike Johanns
Over
Astonishment
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
- Pierre Loti
Next
Firmly
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
- Thomas Friedman
Country
Lives
Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.
- Pope Shenouda III
Right Track
Sooner
The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.
- Mohamed ElBaradei
Modern
Lawful
Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
- Mohammed Morsi
Course
Appropriate
When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.
- Mohammed Morsi
Stop
Commander
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.
- Mohammed Morsi
Ready
Stable
The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.
- Mohammed Morsi
I Am
Dying
I am dying, Egypt, dying.
- Marc Antony
Woman
Rebuild
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Want
Move
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Hope
Will
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
- Rashid al-Ghannushi
New
Smells
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
- Ray Bradbury
Colonialism
Here
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
- Nawal El Saadawi
Melting Pot
Other
Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.
- Shereen El Feki
Pilot
Iraq
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
- Roald Dahl
Play
Tied
I am tied to my father's land and am happy to visit relatives in Egypt, but I feel Italian and was never remotely tempted when Egypt asked me to play for them.
- Stephan El Shaarawy
Living
Subordinate
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
- Stephen Gardiner
Winning
Issue
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
- Walter Russell Mead
Art
Back
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
- Robert Wilson
City
Been
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
- Meir Kahane
Problem
Framework
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
- Menachem Begin
Restore
Been
The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.
- Roger Milla
Election
Which
Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.
- Roger Wicker
Neighborhood
Stood
But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.
- Roger Wicker
Other
Suffered
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Sky
Numerous
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.
- Rosemary Mahoney
Family
Lived
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
- Tea Obreht
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