We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
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. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
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… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful,… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image