"If I were the field marshal, I would give away a big portion of my salary to the poor because they deserve it more than myself." -- Moetaz-Bellah Abdel-Fattah, Al-Shorouk "There are signs on the ground that we are repeating the mistakes of the previous regime which used to tailor laws according to its needs." -- Nasser Fayad, Al-Wafd "The General Assembly accepted Southern Sudan as a full UN member in a few hours due to pressure from the US. But Washington is pushing in a different direction regarding a Palestinian state." -- Makram Mohamed Ahmed, Al-Ahram "I have attended every annual session of the UN General Assembly for 33 years now, and I have never heard applause that lasted more than, or that was louder than, the one President Mahmoud Abbas received, that Palestine received." -- Jihad Al-Khazen, Al-Hayat "If Washington uses its veto, Obama will have stabbed a dagger into the Arabs at the peak of their momentum." -- Tariq Al-Homayed, Asharq Al-Awsat "President Abbas went to the UN to obtain recognition of "an imaginary state without territories, borders, or sovereignty" from a position of despair and not a position of strength." -- Abdel-Bari Atwan, Al-Quds Al-Arabi
