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 it…

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

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

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

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

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

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

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

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 hist…

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political stru…

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

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

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be re…

- Rashid Al-Ghannushi