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“I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.”
“I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.”
“No, I was never afraid.”
“I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.”
“When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.”
“The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.”
“The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.”
“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.”
“Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.”
“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.”
“If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.”
“I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.”
“Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.”
“Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.”
“I would like to have seen my sons growing up.”
“I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.”
“I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.”
“In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.”
“Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.”
“Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.”