The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better

This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing American soldiers to protect their young from the illegal American invasion.