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

I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.

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

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

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.

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

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