Challenges mean opportunities as well.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.