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.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

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.

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?

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.