In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

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

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.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.