As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

Recognise how muchyou have to give.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

You will become whoever you want to be.

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.