Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

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.

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

In my experience, people who don't stick around during the hard times weren't worth having around anyway.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.