People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

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

A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

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

Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.