The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

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.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

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

India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.