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

When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

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

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.