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.
BIANCA JAGGERThe killing of innocent people is always wrong.
More Bianca Jagger Quotes
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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
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Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
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I feel great identification with the developing world.
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During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don’t our world will further descend into a state of chaos.
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We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
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In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
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I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
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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.
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