“I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.”

“The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.”

“I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.”

“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?”