Bottom Lines

"The regime's popularity is dwindling and anger on the street is reaching boiling point." -- Magdi Abdel-Karim, Al-Arabi

"I am willing to give up responsibility immediately to whoever can do a better job." -- Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Ebeid as quoted by Al-Ahrar

"We must admit that this crisis [malaria] is Egyptian made... What happened is our responsibility." -- Magdi Sarhan, Al-Wafd

"The horrible Zionist movement thrives on policies of intrigues and wars. We just wanted to reveal these policies" (in our TV soap opera Diaspora. -- Nasser Akhdar, assistant managing editor of Al-Manar, Al-Bayan

"The American troops were terrified when they first saw me beating my drum to wake people up to eat their meal. They thought I was heralding an attack. It was only when they spoke to Iraqi police that they understood what I was doing." -- Mouzahim Al-Meshadani, the mussaharati of downtown Baghdad, Al-Quds Al-Arabi

"Saudi Arabia (society and government) does not speak with one voice over the issue of reform... It is Crown Prince Abdullah who is at the helm of reform... but there are others who still have to make up their minds." -- Saudi Islamist activist Abdullah Hamid, Al-Quds Al-Arabi