Bottom Lines

"It's all well and good that the US president acknowledged that his country had committed a mistake by its support of despotic regimes in the Middle East for the past 60 years but it would have been much better if he had promised to cease such practices." -- Salah Eissa, Al-Wafd

"Mr President [Bush], you have no right to speak about democracy and reforms in the Arab world because the Arab people did not delegate you to speak on their behalf." -- Mustafa Bakri, Al-Osbou'

"The opposition has serious doubts about the NDP's true intentions regarding a dialogue because it believes that the party will not give up one inch of power." -- Adel Hammouda, Sawt Al-Umma

"We will get the perpetrators no matter how long it takes... No mercy or pity should be felt for anyone thinking of carrying out such acts." -- Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef as quoted in Okaz

"Threatening to impose democracy by force kills democracy and assassinates freedom... Can there be a democratic revolution by occupying a sovereign country's territory? Can it be by jets and cannons?" -- Al-Thawra

"I say to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria that should they not speak in one voice, no-one will hear them and their voice will be lost and so will they."-- Jihad Al-Khazen, Al-Hayat

Al-Ahram Weekly Online : 13 - 19 November 2003 (Issue No. 664)
Located at: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/664/pr3.htm