You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

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

How can you run for president if you dont know the job description?

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

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.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.