India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?

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

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for us free. But the local population should benefit rightfully. The locals should benefit just a little more than the companies.