The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.