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I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

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

I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.

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

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.