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" 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. "

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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. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

Work

Together

People

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward. "

" 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

" So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence. "

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

" Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again. "

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

Process

Values

" I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many. "

" 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

Want

You

" Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day. "

" 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. "

" The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Democracy is more than a ballot box. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

Than

Democracy