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.

Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.

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

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.

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

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