Arab spring Quote by Eric Schmidt

Social media is important, but it does not bring down governments. Governments can shut down the Internet. Governments can control media access. If they…

— Ilan Berman

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an…

— Amr Moussa

What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“The Arab Spring has been a dismal failure. All indications are that what comes next will be significantly worse than what existed before, in…

— John R. Bradley

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than…

— Paul Wolfowitz

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which…

— Jose Maria Aznar

Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political…

— Tariq Ramadan

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were…

— Thomas Friedman

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so…

— Jane Fonda

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

What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and…

— Tariq Ramadan

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

— Mohammed Morsi