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" I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

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" If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people. "

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

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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. "

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

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" We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. "

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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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" I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having 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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" 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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" The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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

" 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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" In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign. "

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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" 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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

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" As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. "

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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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" If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent. "

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