Coup Quote by John R. Bradley

“In the two years since I left Egypt, things haven’t gotten better. Thousands of people have been incarcerated for the most trivial reasons. Hundreds…

— Bassem Youssef

“corruption in Egypt is giant, amorphous, and finally ungraspable.”

— John R. Bradley

“Such criticism grew in the later 1970s, as the immediate post-Nasser years gave way to the period of economic opening up (al-infitah) under Anwar…

— Tarek Osman

If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini,…

— Anthony Eden

“Of course, it's easy to be overly optimistic when it comes to Egyptian reform. The country has a history of false promises and backtracking…

— John R. Bradley

“Nasser taught the Egyptians to be cowards, opportunists, and hypocrites.”

— John R. Bradley

“I lived through beautiful times, Busayna. It was a different age. Cairo was like Europe. It was clean and smart and the people were…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Some of the key pillars of Nasser's project proved greatly lacking. The public sector evolved into a Soviet-style system of sterile thinking, a deathbed…

— Tarek Osman

“The harsh wind of the Egyptian desert is even worse than the harsh wind of the Egyptian pharaoh.”

— Tim Collins

“Government is no good.”

— Willow Rose

“The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating,…

— Wael Ghonim

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

— Paulo Coelho