I will open an era of grand national unity.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.