In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

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.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.