It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

When you value people, you give them freedom.

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers and mothers share responsibility.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.