“We will march to the palace and oust Mubarak. And we know the world is on our side.”

“Get out! Why are you staying? Thirty years is enough.”


“We demand that as a national institution, the army ensures a serious honorable step down of President Mubarak and that he will not return to power under any circumstances,” said Ghonim, who was detained by state security for 12 days and is a member of a group calling itself the “Youth of Jan. 25 revolution.”

Ghonim said an army statement pledging to lift emergency law, promising a free presidential election and guaranteeing other concessions was a “step in the right direction.”

“These guarantees have to be clear and bound by a timeframe because there is a lack of confidence between the people and the current regime,” Ghonim said.


He said the army statement confirmed the “army’s desire to establish the principle of a civil state.”
 

“The army has promised to grant the people their wish. The people want Mubarak to step down, dissolve parliament and end the emergency law. This is in the hands of the president even after handing power to his VP. So on what basis is the army saying it will grant people their wishes? Is the army taking over or merely pressuring Mubarak to grant these wishes? Matters are very unclear. This is going to take us through a dark tunnel.”
 

“It is one of the most important buildings for the state,” he said when asked why he was outside the state television tower block. “It is the last straw for any revolution, if they take over the state TV building, that’s it, the regime is down.”
 

“This is revolution, not an uprising and not a sit-in, this is a real revolution.”
 

“I thank to God that I have lived through these days in which I see your great action and I call on you to be firm until victory.”
 

“The ruler is not the father of the Egyptian people. We are not orphans. The ruler is a civil servant. When the French revolution took place, it created a social agreement between the ruler and the people, that a ruler ascends to power through the people. When the ruler loses the people’s trust, he must immediately step down.”
 

“Mubarak’s speech had the intention of choking us. They want to frustrate us. It’s like they’re trying to tell us: ‘There’s no point, we’re not going’. But they should know we are not leaving either. It’s not about Mubarak alone, it’s about him Suleiman and their whole clique. we want them all to go. They are trying to trick us but we don’t want him and we don’t want Suleiman.”
 

“This is enough, I am on my way to Tahrir to convince people that we need to start dialogue. A lot has changed and as far as I am concerned Hosni is over. Not everything is perfect yet and there is still a lack of clarity on how our demands will be met. But there are a lot of people struggling to make a living while these protest are going on. We need to protect the country and it’s clear that the power is in the hands of the people now. So for the sake of those people who live on day wages, we have to start dialogue.”
 

“No man’s pride or dignity is worth the livelihoods of 80 million people. I really don’t know what is best for this country, but that speech definitely was not it.”
 

“Why is he doing this to himself and to the people. Not only was he speech too late, it was too weak and too self-centerd.”
 

“Mubarak has abdicated but with grace, let’s stop the protests now.”
 

“People should open their eyes and see that change is happening! What is this obsession with ‘leave, leave’, “
 

“We are the heartbroken. We are the ones who have been injured. We are the martyrs. We are the free. We are the revolution.”