Cairo Quotes
More Cairo Quotes
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
boutros boutros-ghali— Statement of 1993, as quoted in The Coming Plague : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995) by Laurie Garrett, p. 592, and in Preventive Diplomacy : Stopping Wars before they Start (1996) by Kevin M. Cahill, p. 254
If I know Arik [Ariel Sharon's nickname], he'll head straight for Cairo and try to get votes for Likud.
ariel sharon— Defense Minister Moshe Dayan on the third day of the Yom Kippur War (The Yom Kippur War, Rabinovich, pg 255)
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated? (If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?)
charles stross— Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147
Today belongs to the people of Egypt, and the American people are moved by these scenes in Cairo and across Egypt because of who we are as a people and the kind of world that we want our children to grow up in. The word Tahrir means liberation.:; It is a word that speaks to that something in our souls that cries out for freedom.:; And forevermore it will remind us of the Egyptian people of what they did, of the things that they stood for, and how they changed their country, and in doing so changed the world.
— Barack Obama, in Remarks by the President on Egypt (11 February 2011)
