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

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.

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.

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.

Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.

Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States.

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.