Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalising. I don't think anything's going to change in China until enough Chinese say, 'We're not going to play this game any more.'

Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

The United State can no longer allow its Arab allies to ward off democratic reform.

We have been with democracy for over 200 years and from time to time we find that we have not perfected it.

I worry that a democratic transition in this period for a state like the U.a. E. would put, us in the throes of reactionary conservatism, probably for the next 30 or 40 years. I look at what is happening in Egypt and other places, and I wonder, do I need that kind of transition?

We had a revolution 2 years ago, and we see a people moving from a completely authoritarian system into a democracy. They don’t know how democracy works. They don’t know the ingredients of a democracy.

I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

There is no scope for revolutions coming to Belarus.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.