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

Mohamed ElBaradei

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" I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely. "

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" Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others. "

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" I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes. "

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" 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. "

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" America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans. "

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" The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran. "

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" The U.S. is not the holder of truth. "

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" Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons. "

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" There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life. "

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" Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons. "

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" I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household. "

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" 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. "

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" The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. "

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

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Nuclear Weapons

" I argue that for every country to have an independent fuel cycle is the wrong way to go. Because any country which has a complete fuel cycle is a latent nuclear weapons country, in the sense that it is not far from making a nuclear weapon. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon. "

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" People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy. "

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" Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons. "

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

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" I lose my temper at home. I try to control my temper at work. Sometimes, if you are under a lot of pressure, you let off some steam, but I also try not to do that because it's unfair to my wife. "

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" Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament. "

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" The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats. "

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" Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security. "

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

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