There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

...British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

Don't trust a guy who accuses you of infidelity. He's cheating. He's projecting. If you're living that kind of life, you think everybody else is too.

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

In a vast & huge country like India, e-governance is the only way for effective delivery unto the last.

C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.