Wael Ghonim Quotes

#1. Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

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#2. The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

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#3. (State Security may not have been full of computer geniuses, but still, I had to be careful).

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#4. The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.

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#5. The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.

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#6. Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me,

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#7. As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

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#8. The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

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#9. The Internet is not a virtual world inhabited by avatars. It is a means of communication that offers people in the physical world a method to organize, act, and promote ideas and awareness.

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#10. No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.

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#11. There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

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#12. I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

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#13. I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.

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#14. Huge numbers of people decided to take to the streets, some for no other reason than just to find out what was happening.

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#15. The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.

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#16. If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.

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