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Anwar Sadat

أنور السادات
Head of state Inactive Verified

Third president of Egypt (1970-1981), broke with the Soviet bloc, made the 1977 Knesset visit, signed Camp David, assassinated October 1981.

Country
Egypt
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state
Status
Historical figure

Position

3 source documents on file for Anwar Sadat (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Anwar Sadat that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • There is no happiness for anyone at the cost of others' misery.
    لا سعادة لأحد على حساب شقاء الآخرين.
    1977 The first of Sadat's "five truths" — opening principle of his 20 November 1977 Knesset address, the Egyptian peace initiative. palquest.org
  • I have not spoken and will not speak with two tongues; I have not dealt and will not deal with two policies.
    إنني لم أتحدث ولن أتحدث بلُغَتَيْن، ولم أتعامل ولن أتعامل بسياستَيْن.
    1977 The second of Sadat's "five truths" — declaration of single-track diplomacy delivered at the Knesset, 20 November 1977. palquest.org
  • I have come to you so that together we may build a permanent, just peace — so that not a single drop of blood is shed from an Arab or Israeli body.
    لقد جئت إليكم لكي نبني معاً السلام الدائم، العادل، حتى لا تُراق نقطة دم واحدة من جسد عربي أو إسرائيلي.
    1977 Mission statement at the close of Sadat's 20 November 1977 Knesset address, after explicit rejection of a separate or partial Egyptian peace. palquest.org
  • He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.
    1977 From the 1977 autobiography In Search of Identity, on the psychology of political change. en.wikiquote.org
  • I am ready to go to the ends of the earth, even to the house of the Israelis themselves, to the Knesset itself, in order to bring peace to my people.
    إنني مستعد أن أذهب إلى آخر الدنيا، بل إلى بيت الإسرائيليين نفسه، إلى الكنيست نفسه، لأحقق السلام لشعبي.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Anwar Sadat [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sadat
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Anwar Sadat." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sadat.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-sadat,
  title     = {{Anwar Sadat}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sadat},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.