I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.