The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.
Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.
I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.
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.
We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.
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.
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.
Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
