A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
After I left Nicaragua to study in France, my mother became disillusioned with the Sandinistas and left Nicaragua to live with us in the U.S.
Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
At first I supported the revolution, like millions of people throughout the world. However, I became disillusioned.
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
I am always talking about justice.
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
I am happy that we are all together, calling for Bush to go home.
I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
I became persona non grata in Nicaragua. For many years I was afraid to go back.
I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
I brought a request from Amnesty International to allow human rights monitors inside Iraq. I oppose the war. However, I urge a process of democratization.
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.
I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
I feel great identification with the developing world.
I felt it was important for those who opposed the war not to accept the status quo. I urged the Iraqi government to pass a law allowing political pluralism.
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
I first arrived in Bosnia in 1993 to document the mass rape of women in the former Yugoslavia. I had been asked to testify before the Helsinki Commission in the U.S. Congress.
I grew up under the Somoza dictatorship, a dynasty that ruled Nicaragua for 43 years, supported by the United States.
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
I hope people here understand how important their votes are.
I lobbied house members in the Appropriation Committee of the U.S. congress to stop the aid that the U.S. government was going to give to Nicaragua.
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
I traveled to Honduras as part of a fact-finding mission with a U.S. congressional staff on Salvadoran death squads.
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
I was against bombing Serbia. I called for the use of ground troops.
I was avid to learn, to discover a new world, a new culture. I wanted to escape the narrow perceptions of the women of the Nicaragua of the 1960s.
I watched an election being stolen-and Americans just let it happen. I could not believe they were not up-in-arms, denouncing it.
I went to Elaine's. The perfect hour is between 11:30 and 2. I think 2 is the limit, and one should go to bed.
I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.
If President Bush remains in power we will all be lost.
If they are actors, celebrities, and politicians, they all have the right to speak out their mind.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
It was President Bush who executed 152 people in Texas, including innocent people. I myself was a witness to the execution of an innocent man named Gary Graham when he was the governor.
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Mr. Bush's answer to the request for justice was rather governed by Wild West culture, and his solution has to do with cowboy mentality and lynch mob retribution.
My father was a businessman and he was not political. My mother was a housewife and she was very political.
My links to Latin America and the developing world are very strong. My umbilical cord was never cut.
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
People in the U.S. fail to understand the Iraqis' resentment and hostility toward them.
President Bush has given precedence to all the energy companies, and he continues to do so.
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
The French have continued to try to cover up.
The international community wants to forget Srebrenica and is reluctant to apprehend the war criminals.
The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
The only government that has done a thorough investigation and admitted wrongdoing has been the Dutch.
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
The U.S. government considers Guantanamo Bay a lawless zone. I don't know if the media in this country has let you see really what these people have been saying about what happened in Guantanamo Bay.
The victory of the Sandinista revolution coincided with the end of my marriage.
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
Thousands of people came to Honduras seeking refuge, and the UN set up refugee camps all along the border.
Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
We don't know that if there is a war that that will bring democracy to Iraq. That is the reason I oppose this war.
We have seen what happens in New Orleans, in Miami. We have seen the result of global warming. Despite that, President Bush continues to deny that there is evidence that humans cause global warming.
We sometimes see how state terror can drive people to terrorism, but it still would be important to highlight the achievements of Gandhian non-violence.
What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
When I do political debates I find it challenging but interesting. It doesn't matter to me if my opponents have totally different views, I can deal with it.
You can share a link to this page with your friend!