I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

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

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.

I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.