I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?

Honesty has always been very important to me.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember.

Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters...on that aspect, no.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?