Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

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