I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

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

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

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 think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

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

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.