Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.