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.

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.

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.

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

Leaders should not stand in front of people. They should stand behind the people.

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

No man should be angry with what is true.

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.