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

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.

From Mohamed ElBaradei

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.

From Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

From Mohamed ElBaradei

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.

From Mohamed ElBaradei

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

From Mohamed ElBaradei

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.

From Mohamed ElBaradei

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.

From Mohamed ElBaradei

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

From Mohamed ElBaradei

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