For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

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.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.