Sandinistas Quotes

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

Elliott Abrams

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

Bianca Jagger

#3. Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.

Stephen Kinzer

#4. There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

John Negroponte

#5. The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

Elliott Abrams

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

Bianca Jagger

#7. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.

David Kushner

#8. My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

Dikembe Mutombo

#9. Energy speaks through dreams ... are you listening?

Elaine Seiler

#10. I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

Alan Alda

#11. The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

Amy Heckerling

#12. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

#13. To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

Susan Cain