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.

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.

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.

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.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.