"It is not power that corrupts but fear."

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

"I am not a figurehead. I am a leader."

"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 tha…"

"Quite frankly, as many people know, there are political prisoners and that shows [the country] does not have a free and fair judicial system."