Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

When you're that many points behind and they wipe the slate clean, that's what I don't like.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

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.

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

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.