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"Santa, alias Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, delivers a surprise package: the scrapping of vital Egyptian government subsidies, as has been suggested by the premier." By Amr Okasha in the Egyptian opposition daily Al-Wafd

"What we are suffering from now is the harvest of 30 years of failure." -- Ali El-Sollami quoted in Al-Wafd

"Ahmed Nazif will leave the cabinet, [the star] of [chief intelligence] Omar Suleiman will rise, and [business tycoon] Ahmed Ezz will fall." -- Adel Hammouda, Al-Fagr

"How is it that [the government] claims that inflation has decreased while prices [of commodities] are skyrocketing?" -- Al-Alam Al-Youm