Arab Quote by Ahmet Davutoglu

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

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

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

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

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

I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and democratic country…

— Burhan Sonmez

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to…

— Walid Jumblatt

“What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.”

— Gwynne Dyer

I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support, not just…

— Larry Diamond

“The situation is complicated, though, in a country like Tunisia, where sudden and dramatic change in favor of Western-style democracy at this juncture does…

— John R. Bradley

Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, and…

— Noam Chomsky

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire…

— King Hussein I

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan