Political Quotes

“When the United States leads, others will follow. I am proud to be associated in this regard. Burma Beyond the Pale On JUNE 22, James ``Leo'' Nichols, 65, died in a Burmese prison. His crime--for which he had been jailed for six weeks, deprived of needed heart medication and perhaps tortured with sleep deprivation--was ownership of a fax machine. His true sin, in the eyes of the military dictators who are running the beautiful and resource-rich country of Burma into the ground, was friendship with Aung San Suu Kyi, the courageous woman who won an overwhelming victory in democratic elections six years ago but has been denied power ever since. Mr. Nichols's story is not unusual in Burma. The regime has imprisoned hundreds of democracy activists and press-ganged thousands of children and adults into slave labor. It squanders huge sums on arms imported from China while leading the world in heroin exports. But because Mr. Nichols had served as consul for Switzerland and three Scandinavian countries, his death or murder attracted more attention in Europe.”