I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.