black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Bianca Jagger

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
BIANCA JAGGER

People Successful War
The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That’s why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
BIANCA JAGGER

Believe Help Innocent People Voice Voiceless
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
BIANCA JAGGER

Commitment Order Perseverance
I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.
BIANCA JAGGER

Believe Leader Peaceful
I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
BIANCA JAGGER

Aware Politically Thinking
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 JAGGER

Believe Interview Lobbying Share Views
I’ve enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer’s program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O’Reilly. I will do it any time.
BIANCA JAGGER

Bills Debate Enjoy Heated
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
BIANCA JAGGER

Difficult Interview
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
BIANCA JAGGER

Discovered Dream Equality Law
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
BIANCA JAGGER

Country Government Nicaragua
I feel great identification with the developing world.
BIANCA JAGGER

Feels Identification World
A taboo, attached to it…now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them
BIANCA JAGGER

Attacked Hiv Husband Infected Taboo Women
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
BIANCA JAGGER

Government Law People
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
BIANCA JAGGER

Forget Marriage Media Want
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.
BIANCA JAGGER

Ambition Men Powerful Seconds
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.
BIANCA JAGGER

Chaos Civil International Law Liberties State
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
BIANCA JAGGER

Believe Genocide Ongoing
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
BIANCA JAGGER

Away Law Rights Walking
Bradley Manning is an American hero.
BIANCA JAGGER

Bradley Country Hero Manning
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.
BIANCA JAGGER

Divorce Parent Years
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
BIANCA JAGGER

Different Leadership Principles Shoulder Turned
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.
BIANCA JAGGER

Country Different Media Told Years
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
BIANCA JAGGER

Effort Hype Media More Nation Point
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.
BIANCA JAGGER

Community Hussein People
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.
BIANCA JAGGER

Freeze Leaving Photography Translation Written
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
BIANCA JAGGER

Country Government Thinking
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?
BIANCA JAGGER

Government Justice People War

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bianca Jagger Quotes