A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

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.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.