The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

My race was never talked about until I married into this family.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT equality, and I think we are a better movement when we give people space to grow and learn. We can't reduce it to a single issue like marriage equality.