I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.

Different times need different types of leadership.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

I have no family to take care of.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.