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We take you now to Myanmar, where opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been free now for almost a week.

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She spent 15 of the past 21 years in detention.

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Now 65 years old, Suu Kyi has fought for more than two decades to bring change to her homeland.

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Our Fred Pleitgen spoke with her.

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You've been using the term "revolution," a peaceful revolution.

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A revolution is always getting rid of one political system and installing another one.

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Is that what you mean?

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No. I mean by "revolution," I mean a significant change, like the IT revolution.

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It means...the IT revolution has meant tremendous changes and significant changes for the whole world.

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So, what we mean is enough change within the country to make people feel that they've got [gotten] onto a new and better stage,

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and that is what I mean by revolution.

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A revolution in the strict sense of the word just means, as I said, tremendous changes.

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I want the people to be more empowered. I want them to feel more empowered.

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I want them to be more involved in the process of nation building.

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I want them to feel that it is they who will decide what the destiny of the country is

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and that they will have the proper means of shaping the destiny of the country.

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It's a lot of things, but the first thing I think is the empowerment of the people -- legally, constitutionally.

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What sort of society do you envision? And, of course, we always look at societies that are already there.

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Do you envision something like the United States, with very broad freedoms, both economically as well as socially?

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Or would you be willing to settle for something maybe more along the lines of China,

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where you have broad economic freedoms now, but social and personal freedoms are still somewhat lagging?

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I think we would like more respect for human rights in Burma than at present you can see going on in China.

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Of course, we would like the economic progress.

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But I think that has to be balanced by what I would think of as accountability.

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And I think China is going in that direction.

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I think some of their local governments and so on have been made to be more accountable.

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And I think accountability is very important. Progress has to go hand in hand with accountability.

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President Obama has said that you're one of his heroes.

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What would you like to see him do in his economic...what would you like to see America do in its policy towards Burma?

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I believe in engagements. I'm not against that.

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There are a lot of people who say that because now the U.S. has decided to engage with the military regime, they've turned their back on us.

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I don't think of it like that. I think engagement is a good thing.

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But I don't want them to go into engagement with...wearing rose-colored glasses.

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I think I would want them to be practical about it: not engagement wearing rose-colored glasses,

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but engagement, but keeping your eyes open and, you know, alert and seeing what is really going on,

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and where engagement is leading to and what changes really need to be brought about.

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You've been talking a lot about dialogue, but you've also been very, very vocal on the need for dramatic change, as you say.

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Are you afraid they're gonna lock you up again for saying that at some point?

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I mean, right now, they seem to be letting it happen, but you never know how long that's gonna last.

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Oh, but let's not put it as dramatic change. Let's put it as change in the right direction and...

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but your question about do I think they'll lock me up again,

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you know, so many people ask me this question and the only thing I can say is I don't know.

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It's always a possibility. After all, they've arrested me several times in the past;

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there's nothing to say that they won't arrest me again.

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But you can't keep thinking about that, you just have to get on with your work.

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And that's what you're gonna do,

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you're just gonna keep putting your policies or trying to put your policies in place or your ideas?

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Well, we do try to be as amicable as possible and we try to be as reasonable as possible in what we ask for.

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But if you are in the kind of struggle in which we're engaged,

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there are certain things you have to do, unless you want to drop out of the movement altogether.