Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Sometimes people who know our societies hate us worse that those who don’t… People who are our intellectual and educational equals feel humiliation even more so that the … peasant who is used to being downtrodden….

There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

Political demagogues will seek popularity by public speeches full of insult to foreign countries, and yellow journals will seek to increase their circulation by appeals to prejudice against foreigners.

You never discount a demagogue.

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

Russia has taken advantage of its exalted status among right-wing extremists to expand its influence throughout Europe.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Part of the people here are interested in the same thing that Putin is interested in: Putin wants to have America as an enemy. Part of Americans want to have Russia as an enemy. It's advantageous. The other part of the people are just ordinary people. And these people project onto big objects the kind of relations that they have with small objects in their everyday lives.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.