Quotes from Bianca Jagger

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

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.

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

When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.

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

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.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

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