I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it...now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them

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.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

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.

George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.

I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

Bradley Manning is an American hero.