Work For Something Because It Is Good,

A State That Denies Its Citizens Their Basic Rights Becomes A Danger To Its Neighbors As Well: Internal Arbitrary Rule Will Be Reflected In Arbitrary External Relations. The Suppression Of Public Opinion, The Abolition Of Public Competition For Power And Its Public Exercise Opens The Way For The State Power To Arm Itself In Any Way It Sees Fit.... A State That Does Not Hesitate To Lie To Its Own People Will Not Hesitate To Lie To Other States.

Responsibility Is Something Higher Than My Family, My Country, My Firm, My Success. Responsibility To The Order Of Being, Where, And Only Where, They Will Be Properly Judged.

The Deeper The Experience Of An Absence Of Meaning - In Other Words, Of Absurdity - The More Energetically Meaning Is Sought.

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.

My Dear Fellow Citizens: For Forty Years You Have Heard From My Predecessors On This Day Different Variations Of The Same Theme: How Our Country Flourished, How Many Millions Of Tons Of Steel We Produced, How Happy We All Were, How We Trusted Our Government, And What Bright Perspectives Were Unfolding In Front Of Us. I Assume You Did Not Propose Me For This Office So That I, Too, Would Lie To You.