The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

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

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

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.

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 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

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.