I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

Like Liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

The radiant one in me has never said a word.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.