Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes:

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.

Topics: People, Psychology, Important, Patronizing, Accommodate

Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.

Topics: Country, Technology, Long, Nuclear Technology

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I dont see why they cant engage with Iran.

Topics: Iran, Korea, North Korea

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Topics: Iraq, Weapons, Able, Ominous, Plutonium

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

Topics: Country, Issues, Skills

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Topics: Nobel, Plans

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

Topics: Dream, Heart, People, Egyptian

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

Topics: East, Middle, Structure

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

Topics: Worry, Democracy, Weapons

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

Topics: People, Failing, Individual

In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

Topics: Views, Government, People

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

Topics: Giving, Classic, Spontaneity

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

Topics: Egypt, Wipe, States, Mubarak, Slate

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

Topics: Mean, Fairness, Lawyer

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

Topics: Weapons, Buying, Nuclear, Buying Power

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

Topics: Country, Realization, Weapons

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

Topics: Military, Acting, Democracy

How can you run for president if you dont know the job description?

Topics: Running, Jobs, President

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, theyve tasted freedom, and theres no way back.

Topics: Way

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I dont think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

Topics: Country, Technology, Thinking, India Pakistan

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.

Topics: Issues, Humanity, Arms, Global Issues

I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

Topics: President, President Obama, Persons

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

Topics: Iraq, Weapons, Nuclear

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

Topics: Egypt, Class, Conservative

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

Topics: Egypt, Rights, Government, Basic Human Rights

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

Topics: Country, Weapons, Nuclear

My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.

Topics: Running, Doe, Framework

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

Topics: Political, Way, Negotiation

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.

source: - Mohamed ElBaradei (2011). “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, p.187, Macmillan

Topics: Long, Risk, Weapons

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

Topics: Coffee, Democracy, Instant, Instant Coffee

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

Topics: Discipline, Training, Lawyer, Professional Training

If The World Does Not Change Course, We Risk Self-Destruction.

source: - "Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction" by Mohamed ElBaradei, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2004.

Topics: Self, Risk, World

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Topics: Integrity, Challenges, Matter, Proliferation, Peace And Security

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb,

Topics: Korea, Plutonium, Bombs

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

Topics: Country, Use, Weapons

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.

Topics: Water, Together, Bombs, Cairo, Prognosis

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

Topics: Stress, Thinking, World, Significant Change

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

Topics: Nuclear, World, Weapons, Extremist Groups

Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.

Topics: Past, Thinking, Care

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

Topics: World, Bed, Hungry

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Powerful, Commitment, Achievement, Nobel Peace Prize

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.

Topics: New York, Unique, Hands, Cairo, Unique Nature

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.

source: - "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

Topics: Country, Believe, Thinking

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

source: - "Profile: Mohamed ElBaradei". www.aljazeera.com. August 20, 2013.

Topics: Father, Taught, Principles

Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

Topics: Used, Conjunctions, Diplomacy, Verification

Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

Topics: Believe, Iran, Way

Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.

Topics: Talking, Track, Long

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

source: - "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Nuclear

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.

Topics: Numbers, Issues, Diplomacy, Lack Of Confidence

At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its director general. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the director general has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.

Topics: Military, Expression, Wish, Proliferation, Nuclear Energy

Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

source: - "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

Topics: Israel, Numbers, Peaceful, Nuclear Arms

If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.

Topics: Thinking, Iran, Korea, Understanding The World

I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.

source: - "Breaking the Cycle". Cairo Times Interview, October 23, 2003.

Topics: Thinking, Race, Color

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

Topics: Smart, Government, People, Cripples

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

Topics: Technology, Iran, Weapons

You either have a civil society or you dont.

Topics: Civil Society

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

Topics: Effort, Momentum, Nuclear, Nuclear Disarmament

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

Topics: Way, Tables, Said, Negotiating

Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons.

Topics: Iraq, Issues, Weapons

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Topics: Democracy, Boxes, Ballots

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

Topics: Thinking, Public Service

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.

Topics: Party, Egypt, Years, Egyptian, Liberal Party

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 peoples desperate need for change.

Topics: Government, Uprising, Numbers, Need A Change, Huge Numbers

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.

source: - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2005.

Topics: Ideas, People, Movement

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.

source: - "Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2004.

Topics: Training, Weapons, Today, Inaccessible, Proliferation

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.

Topics: Egypt, Track, Liberty, Right Track

Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

Topics: Feet, Shooting

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.

source: - "The Army Is on the Edge". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. August 2, 2013.

Topics: Country, America, Bonus, Populist, Bash

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

source: - "Mohamed ElBaradei hits out at west's support for repressive regimes" by Jack Shenker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.

Topics: People, Failing, Individual

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

source: - "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

Topics: Democracy, Firsts, Should

Almost all of the liberal and Christian members of the constitutional commission have withdrawn, because we all fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will pass a document with Islamist undertones that marginalizes the rights of women and religious minorities. Who sits in this group? One person, who wants to ban music, because it's allegedly against Sharia law; another, who denies the Holocaust; another, who openly condemns democracy.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Christian, Religious, Holocaust

We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be no opposition to the laws that he makes and that he is authorized to pass any national security measure. It is difficult to be more absolutist than that. And the constitutional convention - what a sad gathering; it threatens to send us back to the darkest period of the Middle Ages.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Age, Difficult, National Security

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. This is a catastrophe - it a mockery of the revolution that brought him to power and an act that leads one to fear the worst.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: President, Revolution, Egyptian

If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.

source: - "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2003.

Topics: Country, Zero, Mass Destruction, Zero Tolerance

Egypt is indeed deeply divided. Without reconciliation we have no future. The Muslim Brotherhood is an important part of our society. I very much hope that it will participate in the next round of talks. I will be the first to protest if the imperative of fairness isn't adhered to.

source: - "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

Topics: Egypt, Brotherhood, Important, Muslim Brotherhood, Imperatives

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

source: - "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

Topics: President, Trials, Dignity

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

source: - "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

Topics: Country, Egypt, Democracy

In April I founded the Constitution Party. With the Social Democrats and all liberal powers we will combine against the Islamists. We still have a chance and we should not waste the awakening; that would be a tragedy. Young people want more personal freedom and better jobs. They want a clear word from the West against Mohammed Morsi. If Americans and Europeans really believe in the values that they are always preaching then they must help us and pressure Morsi.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Party, Believe, People, Personal Freedom

The simple fact is that there is a limited amount of water on the planet, and we cannot afford to be negligent in its use. We cannot keep treating it as if it will never run out.

Topics: Running, Simple, Water