What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs.
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.
Democracy is more than a ballot box.
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.
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.
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.
If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.
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.
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.
All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.
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.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
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.
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.
You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.
The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
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?
It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.
I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
You either have a civil society or you don't.
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.
The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.
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.
Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.
I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.
I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.
The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control.
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.
The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it is prudent to acknowledge the legitimate interests of the Palestinians and to grant them their own state.
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.
In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.
It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.
We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.
If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail.
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.
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.
How can you run for president if you don't know the job description?
Sanctions are a bad idea.
As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.
I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.
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.
