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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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" You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons. "

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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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" The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control. "

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" I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents. "

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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. "

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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

" 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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people. "

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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

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" Democracy is more than a ballot box. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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