Mohamed Elbaradei Quotes

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.
I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.
I'm not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I'm not trained to organize the grassroots, and grassroots has to come from the grassroots.
I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond.
If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.
If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.
If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.
If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.
In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.
Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state.
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.
It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.
It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.
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