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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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" 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. "

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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

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" You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years. "

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

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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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" The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources. "

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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" 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

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

" I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons. "

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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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" 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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" 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. "

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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

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" When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world. "

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

" 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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

" I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" 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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. "

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

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

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" You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc. "

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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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

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