Arab spring Quote by David Ignatius

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization…

— Lindsey Graham

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If you create enough space in Egypt, civil society will revive itself, and then will you have all of these secular forces, liberals, nationalists…

— Hisham Melhem

Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see…

— Vladimir Putin

I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy…

— Roger Wicker

In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will,…

— Martin Van Creveld