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The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

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

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

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

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

The worst of all outcomes is that the Sandinistas will defeat the democratic fighters, and consequently they would have it all their way.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.