They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

You are not responsible for anybody elses life or happiness, don't ever feel guilty for being happy! ‪

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

I've been waiting a long to to meet you

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.