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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. "
Mohamed ElBaradei
Right
People
Inside
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" America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates. "
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" Threat is in the eye of the beholder. "
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Eye
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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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" I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household. "
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Up
Time
" 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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Become
Community
" If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people. "
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Going
" We have lived for thousands of years together, Muslims and Christians; we are part of the same society. "
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Lived
Society
" All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service. "
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Service
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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. "
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You
Know
" Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. "
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Development
Economic
" I do not want to see the whole Egyptian people feel protected by my presence. They really have to fight for their freedom whether I'm there or not. "
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People
Freedom
" 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. "
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Work
Together
People
" I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many. "
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Country
I Think
Nuclear Weapons
" Democracy is more than a ballot box. "
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More
Democracy
" 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. "
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Connected
Country
Rest
" 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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West
You
World
" 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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Way
Independent
Go
" 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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Clean
Egypt
Must
" The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening. "
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Democracy
Dream
Hearts
" Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity. "
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Live
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" The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran. "
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North Korea
Iran
" You either have a civil society or you don't. "
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Civil Society
Either
Society
" 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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Power
Live
" 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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Religion
Life
" 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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Rich
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" If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent. "
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Transparent
Nothing
Reason