Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

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.