“Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel la...” — Mohamed ElBaradei Quote

“Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.”

“Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.”

“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.”

“The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.”

“The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!”

“When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.”