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

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.