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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
Political
Become
Brazil
Community
State
Weapons
Winds
Rather
Remaining
Develop
Powerhouse
Another
Korea
Were
Shift
Goal
Iran
North
North Korea
While
Japan
Capacity
International
International Community
Nuclear
Technological
Nuclear Weapons
Democracy is more than a ballot box.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Democracy
More
Box
Ballot
Ballot Box
Than
In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Democracy
You
People
Get
Street
Million
Resign
Million People
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
God
Power
Islam
Interpretation
Way
Ruler
About
Only
Prophet
Absolute
Absolute Power
Hijacked
Course
Years
Historically
Very
Accountable
Convenient
After
Such A Way
Whoever
Interpreted
My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Care
Control
Group
Circumstances
Colleagues
Take
Take Care
Feed
Supports
Beyond
She
Read
Left
Behind
Children
Them
Teach
Works
Her
Orphanage
Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
Mohamed ElBaradei
War
Best
You
Accidents
Best Intentions
Through
Intentions
Holocaust
Even
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Technology
Three
First
Think
Everybody
India
Join
Exception
Simply
Countries
Terms
First Of All
Well
Israel
Providing
Going
Them
Incentive
Pakistan
Now
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
Depend
System
Security
Weapon
Deterrence
Develop
Does
Trying
Different
Meaning
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
Need
Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.
Mohamed ElBaradei
International Relations
Relations
Way
How
Conduct
Model
Any
Preemption
Unilateral
Should
International
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Me
You
Father
Principles
Taught
Stand
Your
The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Time
Political
Way
Negotiations
Solution
Right
How can you run for president if you don't know the job description?
Mohamed ElBaradei
You
Job
President
Job Description
Run
Know
How
Description
I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Politics
You
Together
People
Disagree
Argument
Recognise
Respond
Put
Vehemently
Well
Them
Used
International
Even
International Level
Level
The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Freedom
Confidence
Back
Way
Tasted
Egyptians
Grown
If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail.
Mohamed ElBaradei
You
People
Bet
Fail
Instead
Individuals
Going
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
You
Will
Society
Liberals
Extremists
Only
Factions
Empower
Moderate
Then
Socialists
Marginalised
I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Responsibility
Drop
Bear
Blood
Cannot
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 people's desperate need for change.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Government
You
Change
People
Desperate
Will
Respond
React
Call
Demonstrations
Huge
Huge Number
Want
Avoid
Number
Need
The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it is prudent to acknowledge the legitimate interests of the Palestinians and to grant them their own state.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Own
State
Neighbor
Long-Term
Democratic
Understand
Israelis
Prudent
Egypt
Legitimate
Acknowledge
Interest
Them
Interests
Should
Grant
Palestinians
Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
Mohamed ElBaradei
State
Must
Status
Deteriorated
Clean
Wipe
Had
Failed
Egypt
Again
Mubarak
Start
Slate
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Alone
Democracy
Military
Our
Lay
Provide
Egyptians
Legitimacy
Cannot
Much
Acting
Foundations
Treasure
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Democracy
People
Long
Enshrined
Dream
Only
Been
Hearts
Egyptian
Awakening
Needed
The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Risks
Better
Job
Control
Controlling
Community
Spent
Proliferation
Must
Would
Would-Be
Brought
Better Job
New
Parts
Vulnerable
Material
Processing
Sensitive
Fuel
Production
Cycle
Less
International
International Community
Multinational
Radioactive
Disposal
Waste
Nuclear
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.
Mohamed ElBaradei
You
Kind
Economic
Development
Linked
Regime
Social
Social Development
Your
The U.S. is not the holder of truth.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Truth
Holder
I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Relieved
Weapons
Feel
Discovered
Iraq
Did
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
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