The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop us from supporting sanctions. It has to be the other way around: dialogue first, then we stop our call for sanctions, because sanctions make people understand that you cannot exercise repression and at the same time expect international support.

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.