Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country

State what you want, and go for it, don't refuse yourself a request you did not make.

The dust cannot fight against the wind

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.