Jessica Lynch

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'