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

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

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

I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.