“It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me...” — Bassem Youssef Quote

“It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!”

“Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'”

“I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.”

“I have some friends who were involved in the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt.”

“I have friends growing up in Egypt. I have friends in England. And they just can't believe that what I used to say, it used to be almost like a joke. I used to say I'll be in the NBA one day.”

“The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.”