It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.