Latest Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes from Interviews

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• In April I founded the Constitution Party. With the Social Democrats and all liberal powers we will combine against the Islamists. We still have a chance and we should not waste the awakening; that would be a tragedy. Young people want more personal freedom and better jobs. They want a clear word from the West against Mohammed Morsi. If Americans and Europeans really believe in the values that they are always preaching then they must help us and pressure Morsi.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Almost all of the liberal and Christian members of the constitutional commission have withdrawn, because we all fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will pass a document with Islamist undertones that marginalizes the rights of women and religious minorities. Who sits in this group? One person, who wants to ban music, because it's allegedly against Sharia law; another, who denies the Holocaust; another, who openly condemns democracy.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Christian, Religious, Holocaust

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. This is a catastrophe - it a mockery of the revolution that brought him to power and an act that leads one to fear the worst.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  President, Revolution, Egyptian

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be no opposition to the laws that he makes and that he is authorized to pass any national security measure. It is difficult to be more absolutist than that. And the constitutional convention - what a sad gathering; it threatens to send us back to the darkest period of the Middle Ages.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Age, Difficult, National Security

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Democracy, Firsts, Should

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

• Egypt is indeed deeply divided. Without reconciliation we have no future. The Muslim Brotherhood is an important part of our society. I very much hope that it will participate in the next round of talks. I will be the first to protest if the imperative of fairness isn't adhered to.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Egypt, Brotherhood, Important

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

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

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Egypt, Democracy

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

• No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  President, Trials, Dignity

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.