“I feel great identification with the developing world.”

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.

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.

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.

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?

I’m a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I’m very politically correct, although I do question what’s PC and what’s not – I don’t just accept what I’m told.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn’t seem like such an elusive prize.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

[A]s long as you’re comfortable it feels like freedom.

I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn’t feel like it’s about me. Time created a distance.

I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.