When you value people, you give them freedom.

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.

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.

It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.

There are some things that you have to consider when using MySpace, and a lot of big labels don't do this.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

"Mr. Churchill you're drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.