Secretary Clinton In Tahrir Square

Remarks in Tahrir Square

Remarks

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Tahrir Square

Cairo, Egypt

March 16, 2011

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To see where this revolution happened and all that it has meant to the world is extraordinary for me. It's just a great reminder of the power of the human spirit and universal desire for human rights and democracy. It's just thrilling to see where this happened.

Remarks Preceding Meeting With Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf

Remarks

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Cairo, Egypt

March 16, 2011

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It was very exciting and moving for me to go to Tahrir Square and to have some sense of what those amazing days must have been like here in Cairo.

I'm so looking forward to helping in any way that we can in this transformation and all the work that needs to be done.

I was just saying to one of the ministers that we have an expression: It's like drinking from a fire hose. There is so much to be done. But the United States stands ready to help in every way possible to translate what happened in Tahrir Square into the new reality for Egypt.