I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my oppositi….

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world..

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 m….

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..

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection..

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

I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stig….

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 sp….

I feel great identification with the developing world..

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affect….

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 avo….

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 t….

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..