Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.