I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

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.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.

They were actually really nice to me [in Fast 8]. We had BBQs every day on set. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of good times.