Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”