George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.
Meaning of the quote
This quote means that the former President of the United States, George W. Bush, will need to go to the United Nations and say that he made a mistake. Bianca Jagger, a famous person from Nicaragua, thinks that President Bush should admit he was wrong about something he did or said.
About Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger is a Nicaraguan social activist, human rights advocate, and former actress. She was married to Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, from 1971 to 1978. Bianca Jagger currently serves in various roles, including as a Council of Europe goodwill ambassador and the founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation.
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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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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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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.
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I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
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Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn’t just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
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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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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.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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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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In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
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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.
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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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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.
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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?
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The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
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Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
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The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
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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.
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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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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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I feel great identification with the developing world.
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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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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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During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
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I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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