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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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" 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

West

You

World

" If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail. "

" Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

You

Thought

" I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt

Time

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

Position

Within

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

Principles

You

" Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy. "

" You either have a civil society or you don't. "

" 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. "

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

" Threat is in the eye of the beholder. "