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 If you ask whether we shall achieve democracy, whether there will be general elections, here is what I shall say: Don’t think about whether or not these things will happen.

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In Rangoon, on Oct. 17 last year I had the rare opportunity and privilege to have had lunch with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese patriot and national leader.

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 If you ask whether we shall achieve democracy, whether there will be general elections, here is what I shall say: Don’t think about whether or not these things will happen.

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