MOHAMED ELBARADEI

Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

I'm not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I'm not trained to organize the grassroots, and grassroots has to come from the grassroots.

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

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

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

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

I argue that for every country to have an independent fuel cycle is the wrong way to go. Because any country which has a complete fuel cycle is a latent nuclear weapons country, in the sense that it is not far from making a nuclear weapon.

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

Sanctions are a bad idea.

Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.

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

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

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.

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

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

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.

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