When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.

Family and personal life
ElBaradei was born and raised in Cairo Kingdom of Egypt. S. Iraq is a glaring example of how in many cases the use of force exacerbates the problem rather than [solves] it.

He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) an intergovernmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations from 1997 to 2009. On 5 December 2012 ElBaradei was named the coordinator of Egypt's National Salvation Front which also includes former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi and Amr Moussa.