Egyptian - Scientist | June 17, 1942 -
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.
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I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
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As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.
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My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
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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.
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We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.
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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.
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Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.
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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.
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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.
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