Don’t kill a child, a woman, an old man or anyone taking refugue in God’s house. Don’t mutilate, don’t tear down a house, and don’t use excessive violence. These were the Prophet Mohammed’s (PBUH) own words of advice to his armies before they went on jihad. Jihad El-Khazen, in El-Hayat newspaper after the Russian school massacre

I’m not a minister for the private sector, I’m a minister for all of Egypt. Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Rachid Mohamed Rachid, on rumors his portfolio is to be cleaved in half amid concerns he is too inexperienced to manage it

For three days, we saw the resurgence of a Pharaonic state that claims ownership of the land and the people. Al-Wafd party President Noaman Gomaa after the NDP convention

I’m the president of a party whose goals are to look out for the interests of the average citizen. President Hosni Mubarak, in an address to the convention

I promise you all that Sudanese beef will be on your tables by Ramadan for LE 13-15 a kilo. Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif

Something about this deal stinks, and it’s not the meat. Al-Akhbar columnist Ahmed Ragab, on the Sudanese beef deal

What religion can condone the slaughtering of people as if they were sheep? Reformer Ismail El-Naqeeb

If we agreed with the opposition on every single issue, there would be no need for an opposition. NDP Policy Secretariat Chief Gamal Mubarak

If we have no right to dignity in life, at least we should have the right to dignity in death. Al-Akhbar columnist Sommaya Saad El-Din, after two young men suffocated in a prison truck on their way to Cairo after being repatriated from Libya

Let’s say it’s a good chance for us to clear up some historical misunderstandings between East and West. This isn’t a UN meeting. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa after a number of Arab countries pulled out of the main pavilion at this month’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which features the Arab world, in protest of some European countries’ policies in the region.  et