America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

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

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.