Mohamed ElBaradei

“Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.”

“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.”

“Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.”

“I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.”

“We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.”

“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.”

“In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.”

“Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs.”

“If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.”

“Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons.”

“It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.”

“What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.”

“I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.”

“The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?”

“We have lived for thousands of years together, Muslims and Christians; we are part of the same society.”

“I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.”

“I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.”

“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 do not want to see the whole Egyptian people feel protected by my presence. They really have to fight for their freedom whether I'm there or not.”

“The U.S. is not the holder of truth.”