Long Quote by Rashid al-Ghannushi

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

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

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

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

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…

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

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

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

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

— 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…

— Rashid al-Ghannushi