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" Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. "
People
Law
Genocide
" 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. "
Wrong
War
Nation
" In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. "
Value
Equality
Law
" I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America. "
Think
Threat
America
" 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. "
Think
Revolution
Had
" 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. "
Doing
Wolf
Will
" I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. "
Science
Thought
Way
" Live interviews are more difficult to distort. "
Difficult
Interviews
Live
" 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? "
Look
Achieve
You
" Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. "
America
Indigenous People
Own
" 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. "
Great
Democracy
Loss
" 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. "
Lost
People
Mind
" President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas. "
Back
Texas
Office
" 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. "
Against
Rescue
Community
" The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues. "
Commitment
Justice
Life
" The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. "
United
Lottery
Death Penalty
" The killing of innocent people is always wrong. "
Always
Wrong
People
" 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. "
People
Voice
American
" 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? "
Justice
People
War
" The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. "
Up
Survival
Government
" The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection. "
Question
Without
Popular
" The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. "
Rather
Nicaragua
Power
" Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society. "
Suffer
Members
Top
" Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism. "
Terrorism
Talk
Lot
" 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. "
Leader
Principles
Kind
" We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime. "
Crime
Go
Out
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