"The salary of an employee who earns LE1,000 a month equals less than 20 kilos of red meat." -- Alaa Abdel-Wahab , Al-Akhbar "Sheikh El-Tayeb deserves to be the grand sheikh of Al-Azhar. He deserves to fill the post occupied by many respectable scholars before him." -- Mohamed El-Zorqani , Akhbar Al-Yom "Ahmed Zuweil, Magdi Yaqoub, Umm Kolthoum and other luminaries graduated from schools that used beating as a form of punishment." -- Mustafa Shafiq , Al-Wafd "Today we are so close to crowning either Al-Maliki or Allawi. This makes the elections more exciting for those who are following it, as it reveals clear political progress in the society of the new state." -- Abdel-Rahman Al-Rashed , Asharq Al-Awsat "Gone are the times when Iraq used to live in the grasp of a single man and a single party; a leader who is delegated by history, not ballot boxes... a single leader who is the single voter." -- Ghassan Cherbel , Al-Hayat "Everyone will say to the UN secretary-general, if they had the chance to meet him, that his promises and claims have not materialised. The suffering of Gazans has increased since his first visit." -- Al-Rayah
