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

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

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

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

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.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

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.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

I feel great identification with the developing world.

Bradley Manning is an American hero.

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.

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we’ve been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I’ve been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

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?

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people.

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.