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How are we going to have peace when we still have two billion people living on less than two dollars a day?

Mohamed ElBaradei
People wake up every morning and see who is being killed — it's all Muslims. It's easy then for a populist to tell them there is a conspiracy.

Mohamed ElBaradei
Consider our development aid record. Last year, the nations of the world spent over $1 trillion on armaments. But we contributed less than 10 per cent of that amount — a mere $80 billion — as official development assistance to the developing parts of the world, where 850 million people suffer from hunger.

Mohamed ElBaradei
Why has this security so far eluded us?
I believe it is because our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Mohamed ElBaradei
People talk about Islamofascism. You had Red Brigade, you had Shining Path — you don't usually say these are Catholic and Protestant.

Mohamed ElBaradei
Consider also our approach to the sanctity and value of human life. In the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, we all grieved deeply, and expressed outrage at this heinous crime — and rightly so. But many people today are unaware that, as the result of civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3.8 million people have lost their lives since 1998.
Are we to conclude that our priorities are skewed, and our approaches uneven?

Mohamed ElBaradei
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Mohamed ElBaradei