All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

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

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.