Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.