Bridges Quote by Mona Eltahawy

Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a…

— Sharif Abdel Kouddous

“President Mubarak had overspent his goodwill and reputational equity that he may have had when he assumed leadership in Egypt 30 years ago. His…

— Amiso M. George

Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as…

— Mona Eltahawy

I personally think President [Hosni] Mubarak, who's done a lot for Egypt, should acknowledge that his time has come and step down right away.

— Vaclav Havel

The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an…

— Elliott Abrams

“The only chance of a rupture is if Mubarak decides to push Gamal toward the presidency despite objections put forward by the military. The…

— John R. Bradley

“Their chance came with the 2011 revolution. The group's leaders calculated that the end of Mubarak's reign would create a political void, and hoped…

— Tarek Osman

“I had known Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, for nearly twenty years. He was a career Air Force officer who had risen through the…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to topple [Bashar]…

— Ted Cruz

In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of…

— Wael Ghonim