I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

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

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.

I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'