“Sanctions are a bad idea.” — Mohamed ElBaradei Quote

Sanctions are a bad idea.

I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond.

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

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.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.