The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

If you feel helpless, go help someone.

Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.