I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.