For most of my CHILDHOOD, even through college, there was a LOT of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything CAME, or when CERTAIN characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt CONNECTED.

When I was YOUNGER, we LIVED in a HORSE COMMUNITY.

I have NOTHING against respecting PEOPLE who LIVED before, but we have no RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD them.

It doesn't really MATTER how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the FUNDAMENTAL CREED of the Catholic Church, which is SERVICE to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the UNITED STATES that EVER LIVED.

Mexico is a Latin powerhouse. And Mexicans, they're known as HARD workers. Here in the U.S., not everybody WANTS to do those KINDS of jobs. I've lived. I KNOW what it feels like and what they go through and how families suffer.

I attended FIRST a military academy, then a public school in Beverly HILLS, where we lived, and many of my CLASSMATES were the CHILDREN of movie stars and studio executives.

Barack knows the AMERICAN Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same OPPORTUNITY, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we LOOK LIKE or who we love.

Well, I THINK it's REAL important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern CALIFORNIA, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our LIVES since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

I had very few FRIENDS. There was nobody I could trust. I LEFT HOME when I was fifteen. I LIVED in Washington Square PARK.

I've LIVED and worked in Brussels and NEW York at the U.N. and worked all over the WORLD. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one WEEK and then Dafur the NEXT.

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to MAN while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us ANOTHER gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can EVER STEAL it away.

We WOULD like to live as we once lived, but HISTORY will not PERMIT it.

She who has NEVER LOVED has never LIVED.

As a southerner born after the EPIC events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of GOOD will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain SIGHT, and, as the movement gathered FORCE, with the FIRE hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.