Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

I think that feeling of reward comes from being able to find sometimes an unexpected reflection or insight that seems to transcend the description itself, where you actually realize you're concluding something that is a point of view, that may come across and actually touch people's conscience or minds in a way that could change, at least if not things, change points of view.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.