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" I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons. "
Mohamed ElBaradei
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
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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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" Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons. "
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" 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. "
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" The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources. "
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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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" 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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