As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.