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.

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.

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

You are all made of real poop.

Maintain a forgiving attitude!

Hope is the only good that is common to all men those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.

I don't believe Vladimir Putin is a killer, a threat to France, to others in this region. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.