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Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.

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

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

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

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.

Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody.

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

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 life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.