How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of….

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age..

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades an….

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with ….

The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is educati….

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in lin….

When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered "condemnati….

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ours….

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right..

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north Indi….

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping..

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid d….

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up..

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer..

In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real….

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied..

Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their act….

It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baro….

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 pu….

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word..