We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.
Mohamed ElBaradeiI'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
Mohamed ElBaradeiNuclear 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.
Mohamed ElBaradeiWhen you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.
Mohamed ElBaradei