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In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.

Nov 05, 2013

Fatima Bhutto, Interview with the Editor of The Hindu Business Line
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But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria...

Sep 09, 2013

Bashar al-Assad, Interview with Charlie Rose aired on PBS
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement. Opposition doesn't mean to take-- armament and kill people and destroy everything. Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the '90s, do you call them rebels or opposition? What would the British call the rebels less than two years ago in London? Do-- did they call them opposition or rebels? Why should we call them opposition? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are terror-- they are behaving-- this opposition, opposing country or government by behaving by barbecuing head, by eating the hearts of your victim? Is that opposition?

Sep 09, 2013

Bashar al-Assad, Interview with Charlie Rose aired on PBS
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The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

Aug 29, 2013

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

Feb 04, 2011

Alaa Al-Aswany, The Washington Post
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The fall of regimes was not the revolution, but just a way to establish the foundations for the Arab Spring. Freedom and democracy need time.

Nov 27, 2011

Sateh Noureddine, The New York Times
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The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.

Oct 21, 2011

Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal
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If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.

Apr 22, 2011

David Ignatius, Foreign Policy
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Politicians like stability. Bankers like stability. But the "stability" we have so long embraced in the Arab world wasn't really stability. It was repression.

Jan 31, 2011

Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post
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The genie is out of the bottle in Egypt. It cannot be put back in.

Jan 28, 2010

John King, CNN's “Piers Morgan Tonight”
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