Quotes from Mohamed ElBaradei

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Threat is in the eye of the beholder.

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.

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

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.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

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.

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

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

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons.

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

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.

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

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

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.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.