• Ela aceita que tomou algumas decisões questionáveis em nome do avanço de seus próprios objetivos, mas acredita que é a melhor opção de Bajor

  Winn: I have often sensed that you don't approve of how I conducted myself as Kai, that you believe I put my own political interests ahead of the spiritual well being of our people. I wish I could disagree with that assessment. I have strayed from the path the Prophets laid down for me.

  [...]

  Winn: Oh yes, I have given in to the temptations of power.

  [...]

  Winn: But Bajor needs me.

  ^{_{Deep Space Nine Season 7 Episode 19: "Strange Bedfellows"}}

• Ela está totalmente disposta a transformar qualquer evidência (ou ausência de evidência) na aprovação dos Profetas

  Winn: I've resolved to change. Don't you see? Once I have regained the Prophets' trust, I'll be better able to serve them if I remain Kai. If the Prophets wanted me to step down, surely they would have told me so.

  ^{_{Deep Space Nine Season 7 Episode 19: "Strange Bedfellows"}}

No final da série, ela parece declarar que nunca acreditou nos Profetas, ou pelo menos que nunca foi uma devota particularmente consistente:

Winn: I rid myself of the Prophets and shed a lifetime of hypocrisy.

^{_{Deep Space Nine Season 7 Episode 25: "What You Leave Behind"}}

Claro que ela continua tentando destruir os Pah-Wraiths, então faça dessa declaração o que você quiser. Uma conversa anterior com Anjohl Tennan (um Gul Dukat disfarçado) parece indicar que ela tentou servir os profetas, mas não sentiu muita devoção por eles:

Winn: I remember the first time I saw the Gate of the Celestial Temple. I was on the Promenade. When it burst into view, this whirlpool of colour and light, the people around me were in awe. They said they could feel the love of the Prophets washing over them. Do you know what I felt, Anjohl? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But I smiled and pretended I did because it was expected of me. I've never admitted that to anyone.

Dukat: I can understand why.

Winn: They've never spoken to me. Never offered me guidance. Never trusted me with the fruits of their wisdom. And now, I'm supposed to step down as Kai in order to be blessed by them? No. I have worked too hard, waited too long to give it all up now.

Dukat: You shouldn't have to. Merciful gods don't ask their children to make such sacrifices.

Winn: The Prophets have turned their backs on me. After all I've done for them, all the pain I've endured for them.

Dukat: They are not worthy of you, Adami.

Winn: I'm a patient woman. But I have run out of patience. I will no longer serve gods who give me nothing in return. I'm ready to walk the path the Pah wraiths have laid out for me.

^{_{Deep Space Nine Season 7 Episode 19: "Strange Bedfellows"}}

Da boca da atriz

Por qualquer canonicidade que você atribua a entrevistas com atores, Louise Fletcher é frequentemente perguntada por sua interpretação no Kai, e sua resposta consistente é que Winn tem fingido o tempo todo; em uma entrevista , ela diz:

"I thought she was trying to believe," says Fletcher. "She made that speech about how she pretended to believe because that was what was expected of her, and when people said they heard the Prophets' voices, she just smiled and pretended she did too. She would say different things depending on who she was talking to. Except when the Emissary started to hear them, she was so jealous! She was contemptuous that he would have been chosen."

E em um DVD extra da 7ª temporada , ela diz:

Fletcher: I think Kai Winn just basically has a resentment for anyone else who has power. She wants to be the be-all end-all of power, and the fact that the Prophets, that she became interested in the Prophets and her basic belief structure, which we find out toward the end has all been hypocrisy anyway, she never really believed, it was all just lip-service and appearance. But what she was basically interested in was just having that power for herself.