The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

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

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

I don't really have a realistic life. Anyway, I am a schizophrenic so there two persons in me. Because I am the person I put on for the public and the person that I am really . . . deep inside me. So I have to cover it all up with . . . glamour and all that bullshit . . . make-up . . . glamour, dresses, color, etc., etc. . . . trying to hide a very . . . fragile person, really . . . very vulnerable to attack.

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

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 am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.