Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy,…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei