"I am committed to national reconciliation."

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

"We are working towards reconciliation and national unity."

"I am not a Buddhist fundamentalist."

"The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development."