Beji Caid Essebsi Quotes:- Beji Caid Essebsi (Born: 29 November 1926–25 July 2019) was a Tunisian politician who served as the 6th president of Tunisia from 31 December 2014 until his death on 25 July 2019. Previously, he served as the minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1986 and as the prime minister from February 2011 to December 2011.
Inspirational Beji Caid Essebsi Quotes
“The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“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.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“When you are a politician, it means working for the benefit of the country, not staying home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“There is no dignity without work. You can’t tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both ‘hard,’ through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and ‘soft,’ based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely… In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
“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 instrumentalizes religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.”
Beji Caid Essebsi
