The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity these values mean a lot to me.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.

I'm not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I'm not trained to organize the grassroots, and grassroots has to come from the grassroots.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity -- these values mean a lot to me.

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.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts -- stalled for a decade -- to bring about nuclear disarmament.

You either have a civil society or you dont.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.