If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

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.

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.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

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

I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention.