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

Mohamed ElBaradei

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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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" Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity. "

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" 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. "

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" I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many. "

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

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" Democracy is not an instant coffee. "

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

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" We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack. "

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" I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues. "

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" I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly. "

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

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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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" The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening. "

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" 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? "

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" The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back. "

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" My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others. "

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" The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it is prudent to acknowledge the legitimate interests of the Palestinians and to grant them their own state. "

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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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" The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years. "

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

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" I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward. "

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" Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way. "

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" Threat is in the eye of the beholder. "

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