Quotes by Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Success

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Life

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Life

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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?

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Life

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

Threat is in the eye of the beholder.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Truth

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Success

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Life

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Life

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.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wisdom

Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Freedom