The fear is that this … is a taste of things to come.

The U.N. is a good idea and an essential idea.

In this sense, we haven’t seen the U.N. do anything for us on the street. Just a little progress on this would make both us in Egypt, and people elsewhere in the Arab world, happy.

When you kill little babies, things have changed. We will try you, and you won’t be able to travel abroad again.

I think it will be hard to get people to vote until there is some differentiation between the state, the government and the [ruling] party-people see them as the same.

Democracy is not really happening, if you look at the small print. They’re putting on a show for the consumption of the foreign press and the Americans and we’re saying no, we’re not playing their...