Sadat Quotes:

There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People rebelled and poured into Tahrir Square, shouting slogans against the government just like they did earlier this year. Sadat learned his lesson and kept bread subsidies in place, and so did a host of other Middle Eastern dictators - many of whom were propped up for years by the West, partly through subsidized American wheat.

- Annia Ciezadlo

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Government, Egypt, Years, Tahrir Square, Sadat

Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Thinking, Israel, Years, Sadat, Fanatics

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Rose, Dancer, President, Egyptian, President Nixon

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

- Harry Hamlin

topic: Men, Trying, Quality, Admirable Qualities, Sadat

We (Israelis) always think that we're at the center of everything. It's true that we didn't make peace with Egypt and Jordan, but with two men, President Sadat and King Hussein. It is possible that we will have to restructure the peace and our relations (so that they are) between one people and another.

- Tom Segev

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Kings, Men, Thinking, Restructure, Sadat

Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

- Tom Segev

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: War, Egypt, Uprising, Egyptian, Gaza

Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.

- Jimmy Carter

source: Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

topic: Country, Peace, War, Sadat

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

- Jared Taylor

topic: Grandchildren, Men, Grandparent, Sadat

Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice.

- Jehan Sadat

topic: Voice, Justice, Important, Sadat

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Men, Goal, People, Sadat