All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.

There is no hope without endeavor.

Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.