Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi,is a Burmese social democratic stateswoman, politician, diplomat and author who serves as the First and incumbent State Counsellor and Leader of the National League for Democracy. She is also the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar and the Minister of President's Office in President Htin Kyaw's Cabinet, and from 2012 to 2016 was a Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Kawhmu Township...
NationalityBurmese
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth19 June 1945
CountryMyanmar
I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.
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.
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
I would like to have seen my sons growing up.