Aung San Suu Kyi

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

The U.S. government has been too optimistic. What significant reform steps have been taken in the last 24 months?

immigration issue

I have condemned Rohingya persecution but perhaps I don't use the kind of kind of pyrochnic language that people would like.

You can't shut down internment camps without making alternative arrangements people say shut down the camps. and where are those people going to go to.

To stay neutral between an aggressor and a victim is to side with the aggressor.

I want to find out why this is happening.

there have been no armed clashes and there have been no clearance operations for the past two weeks.

more than 50 percent of Muslim villages are intact.

(Refused to use the word 'Rohingya', instead using 'Muslim' or 'Bengali' to describe the community).

terrorists... a huge iceberg of misinformation... calculated to create a lot of problems between different communities and with the aim of promoting the interest of the terrorists.

The events in Rakhine... did not constitute genocide.

it is Muslims killing Muslims as well.

She called the generals 'rather sweet.'

I am just a politician. I am not quite like Margaret Thatcher, no. But on the other hand, I am no Mother Teresa either. I have never said that I was.

I don't care about prizes and honours as such. I am sorry that friends are not as steadfast as they might be. Because I think friendship means understanding, basically, trying to understand rather than to just make your own judgement. But prizes come and prizes go.

If there is no discipline, no system can succeed. Therefore one people should always be united and disciplined.

India had drawn away from us in our very difficult days. But I had faith in the lasting friendship between the two countries based on lasting friendship between our two peoples.

A strategy for citizenship requires cooperation from all communities.

If war crimes have been committed by members of Myanmar's defence services, they will be prosecuted through our military justice system, in accordance with Myanmar's constitution.