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" Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

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" My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. "

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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 cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised. "

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" Democracy is more than a ballot box. "

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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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" 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. "

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" My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework. "

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

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International Relations

" The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards. "

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

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" How can you run for president if you don't know the job description? "

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" 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. "

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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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" Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you. "

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" 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. "

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

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" You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East. "

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

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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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" 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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