The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.