Burma Quotations

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.

Since Burma (Myanmar) is a member of the United Nations, it has the obligations to follow the recommendations of the General Assembly, the independent agencies and the secretary general,

We don't hit very much in practice, so there's not a lot of chance to put your pad level down and Burma Road somebody, blast 'em and hit it up in there, because we're thudding. I try to save my team as much as I can for game day,

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

We want the U.N. Security Council, whether it is under the international threat to peace (measure) or just on the basis of its human-rights mandate, to take up the issue of Burma much more seriously, much more consistently.

Democracies like the Philippines should be ashamed if they try to block discussion of Burma (Myanmar) at the Security Council. Burma has embarrassed ASEAN over and over again.

For 15 years the Government of Burma (Myanmar) has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse,

For 15 years the Government of Burma has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse, ... In fact, the situation in Burma is much more severe compared to other countries in which the Security Council has chosen to act in recent years.

It kind of builds on the Burma Shave concept. When you start reading them, naturally you want to get to the end of the rhyme.

No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.

In a way, it's more a 19th-century game. They are buying long-term supplies wherever they find them - including in unsavory places like Sudan, Iran and Burma where we won't buy. They say it is benign, because they don't interfere with the internal affairs of other nations. And we say it is anything but benign, because it finances these regimes' bad behavior.

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.