Bianca Jagger Quotes

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Bianca Jagger

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : May 2, 1945

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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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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Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

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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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Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

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

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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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I feel great identification with the developing world.

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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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I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

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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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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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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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I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

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

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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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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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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 spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

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