Briefing

'We don't want a dictatorship again.'

1. AHMED HUSSEINI, a 32-year-old resident of Cairo, where more than 100,000 people gathered in Tahrir Square to protest edicts by which Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi granted himself autocratic powers

'I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.'

2. SAXBY CHAMBLISS, U.S. Senator from Georgia, one of a handful of Republican lawmakers indicating they might break Grover Norquist's decades-old "no new taxes" pledge to avoid the fiscal cliff

'Tomorrow, a new day starts for all Greeks.'

3. ANTONIS SAMARAS, Prime Minister of Greece, after striking a deal between euro-zone finance...

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