The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

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.

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 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.

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.