In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.