"I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
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"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
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"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
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"My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
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"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."
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"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
-Richard Dreyfuss
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
-George Crook
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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