Bianca Jagger Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Believe, Ongoing, Genocide

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• 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.

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  Country, Loss, People

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• 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.

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  War, Law, Nicaragua

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• 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.

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  Iraq, World, Hussein

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

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  Nicaragua, Embargo, Weakening

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• Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

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  Interviews, Difficult

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• I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

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  Latin, Thinking, Government

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• 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.

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  Media, Want, Forget

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

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  Europe, Viewpoints, World

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• 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.

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  Country, Media, Years

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• 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?

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  War, Thinking, President

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• 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 stigma, 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

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  Husband, Hiv, Aids

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Ambition, Men

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• Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

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  War, Successful, People

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

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  Revolution, Insurrection

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• 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.

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  Law, Walking Away, Rights

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• 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 opposition to the Contra war.

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  War, Mistake, Understanding

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Differences, Revolution

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• President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

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  Home, Texas, Office

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• George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.

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• 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.

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  People, Community, Hussein

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

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  Today, Terrorism, States

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• I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

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  Believe, Leader, Peaceful

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• 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.

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  Believe, Views, Lobbying

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• 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.

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  Believe, Voice, People

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