Mohamed ElBaradei

“Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.”

“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.”

“You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.”

“All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.”

“You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.”

“Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.”

“Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.”

“I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.”

“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.”

“I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.”

“You either have a civil society or you don't.”

“You need to form a grand coalition, and you need to put your ideological differences aside and work together to focus on people's basic needs. You can't eat sharia.”

“I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.”

“I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.”

“Sanctions are a bad idea.”

“Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.”

“Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.”

“If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.”

“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.”

“I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.”