Contra Quotes

(interview in "In Style" magazine, 9/06) The first album I ever got was "Like a Virgin". It was during the Iran Contra conflict-I thought she was saying, "Like a Persian".

I`m very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I`m positively against it. I don`t have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

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.

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?

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven`t really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn`t ask me about something, I wasn`t about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

If we put contra-flow in place, then we shut down that corridor very quickly.

No estamos en un buen nivel y cada vez estamos peores. El resultado en contra nos pone pensar en el futuro.

(While the Mercury News series could arguably be faulted for occasional overstatement, the elite media`s attacks on the series were clearly driven by a need to defend their shoddy record on the contra-cocaine story--involving a decade-long suppression of evidence ( Extra! , 6/87, 3-4/88). The Washington Post was typical.) When Brian Barger and I wrote the first story about contra-cocaine smuggling for the Associated Press in December 1985 (12/20/85), ... the Post waited a week, added some fresh denials and then stuck the story near the back of the national news section.