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

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

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.

To be able to stay beside a beloved one is the special privilege of a friend.

To expand our life, be loving and kind.

I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.

The only shame is to have none.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.