Mohamed Elbaradei

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

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

When 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.

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.