Bianca Jagger Quotes

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

Government, Speak, Often

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

Government, America, Threat

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.
Bianca Jagger

Revolution, Between, Difference

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

Best, Science, Political

I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.
Bianca Jagger

Time, Wolf, Debate

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

Dreams, Equality, Words

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
Bianca Jagger

Live, Difficult, Interviews

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.
Bianca Jagger

Great, Doubt, Democracy

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.
Bianca Jagger

Mind, Lost, Him

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

Home, President, Office

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.
Bianca Jagger

Against, Community, Crimes

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.
Bianca Jagger

Life, War, Justice

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
Bianca Jagger

Death, United, Lottery

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.
Bianca Jagger

Help, Why, Become

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

War, Government, Fighting

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

Revolution, Question, Popular

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

Power, Rather, Actually

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?
Bianca Jagger

War, Government, Justice

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
Bianca Jagger

Society, Less, Top

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
Bianca Jagger

Different, Before, Leader

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
Bianca Jagger

Crime, Committed, Suspect

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Biography

Nationality: Nicaraguan

Type: Celebrity

Born: May 2, 1945

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