Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lacovara

We approached the Egyptians first. It was kind of the reverse of normal. ... At first they had to be convinced.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. ... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people - sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour ... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.

Anthony Sampson

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Anthony Weiner

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.

Camille Paglia

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.

Camille Paglia

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

Camille Paglia

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

Bill Maher

President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.

Dennis Prager

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

Beth Moore

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Al Gore

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Ambrose Bierce

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

David Platt

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

David Platt

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

Ted Stevens

This is no way to treat a state, ... We're a sovereign state.

R. C. Sproul

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

R. C. Sproul

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Christian Lous Lange

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Phil Fontaine

There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.