The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

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.

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.

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.

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