Top 66 Quotes About Mubarak
#1. I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
Nawal El Saadawi
#2. Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.
Ahmed Zewail
#3. There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States.
Elliott Abrams
#4. There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.
Anthony Weiner
#5. The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.
Madeleine Albright
#6. 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
#7. I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.
Hosni Mubarak
#8. If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
Douglas Brinkley
#9. Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#10. All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power.
Asmaa Mahfouz
#11. Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
Noam Chomsky
#12. On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#13. The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
Elliott Abrams
#14. Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'
Cynthia P. Schneider
#15. Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
Naguib Sawiris
#16. There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.
Richard Engel
#17. 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
#18. The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.
Graydon Carter
#19. As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
Naguib Mahfouz
#20. As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#21. Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.
Wael Ghonim
#22. The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies.
Hosni Mubarak
#23. Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.
Ann Coulter
#24. Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.
Noam Chomsky
#25. 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
#26. For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
Ahmed Zewail
#27. The so-called Arab Spring has proved that the fall of a Mubarak-like presidency does not mean the immediate rise of democracy. In spite of this, I am confident that Egypt will not return to an authoritarian governing system again, and that, with some time, it will achieve its democratic goals.
Ahmed Zewail
#28. Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real.
Elliott Abrams
#29. I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?
Chris Matthews
#30. Hosni Mubarak ... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
Naguib Mahfouz
#31. Move over to Egypt. Once again, the [Barack] Obama administration, encouraged by Republicans, toppled [Hosni] Mubarak who had been a reliable ally of the United States, of Israel, and in its place, [Mohamed] Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood came in, a terrorist organization.
Ted Cruz
#32. Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.
Hosni Mubarak
#33. How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#34. The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.
Hosni Mubarak
#36. 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
#37. The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.
Hosni Mubarak
#38. If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.
Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak
#39. Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.
Hosni Mubarak
#40. We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
Hosni Mubarak
#41. What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.
Hosni Mubarak
#42. I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.
Hosni Mubarak
#43. If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#44. For the welfare of the whole world and the new world order.
Hosni Mubarak
#45. We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
Hosni Mubarak
#46. I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.
Hosni Mubarak
#48. My aim was never to seek a force and take power.
Hosni Mubarak
#49. Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#50. I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice ... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
Hosni Mubarak
#51. If there is one bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward.
Hosni Mubarak
#53. Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.
Hosni Mubarak
#54. Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.
Hosni Mubarak
#55. We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#56. O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#57. I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.
Hosni Mubarak
#58. Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#59. Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.
Hosni Mubarak
#60. If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.
Hosni Mubarak
#61. When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.
Hosni Mubarak
#62. Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.
Hosni Mubarak
#63. I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I'm not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#64. The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.
Hosni Mubarak
#65. I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge ...
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#66. The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
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