People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so that the people know what it is doing and can judge for themselves whether or not they like what is being done.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

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

To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.