We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb.

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use