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.

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.

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.

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

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.