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

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.

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.

When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, 'Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there's no way you can win.

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

Every country has their problems.

Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.