I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.

If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.