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

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

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 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.

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

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

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