As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

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

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.