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After a flight across the ocean, a major ceremony on Capitol Hill, and a meeting with President Obama at the White House, anyone would be exhausted. But not Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition party in Burma’s parliament and, for more than two decades, the voice of freedom in a nation under a heavy-handed military dictatorship.

In addressing a dinner in Washington Wednesday evening co-hosted by the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, the Nobel Laureate held the audience spellbound as she forcefully spelled out her vision of Burma as a free and democratic nation and one that embraced the free market. Aung San Suu Kyi’s remarks — delivered without a note in front of her — came hours after she received the Congressional Gold Medal on Capitol Hill and met with Obama at the White House.

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