All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

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.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I'm demanding returns for my investments. I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I'm willing and able to pay for the consequences.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.