In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Challenges mean opportunities as well.

It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.