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• Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

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• Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

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• Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

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• Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

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• People must work in unison.

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• People keep saying I’ve changed. I used to be confrontational. But I’m – I haven’t changed. It was – it’s just that circumstances have changed.

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• One wants to be together with one’s family. That’s what families are about.

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• One should mature over 20 years.

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• One person alone can’t do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

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• Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

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• No, I was never afraid.

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• My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that’s the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

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• My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

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• My attitude is, do as much as I can while I’m free. And if I’m arrested I’ll still do as much as I can.

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• 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.

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• Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

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• It doesn’t seem right for anybody to get so much attention.

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• 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.

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• In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

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• In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

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Birth:	19th June, 1945
Nationality:	Burmese
Profession:	Chairperson, Politician

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