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.
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.
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.
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the 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.
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?
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.