Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• 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.

• Democracy is more than a ballot box.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Democracy, Boxes, Ballots

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

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Worry, Democracy, Nuclear

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

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Dream, Heart, Democracies Have

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

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Military, Democracy, Acting

• 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.

• Almost all of the liberal and Christian members of the constitutional commission have withdrawn, because we all fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will pass a document with Islamist undertones that marginalizes the rights of women and religious minorities.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

• Democracy is not an instant coffee.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Coffee, Democracy, Instant Coffee

  "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

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