At the moment I would like to emphasize the need for vocational training, for non-formal education in Burma to help all those young people who have suffered from a bad education. They have to be trained to earn their living. They have to have enough education vocational training to be able to set up respectable lives for themselves.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

In Burma, we need to find out what we have to do in order to keep the democratization process on track. Economic reforms have to be taken one by one. You see it's not just speed that's important, it's sequencing as well. You've got to get the speed right; you have to get the sequencing right.