We either have to take it in, or refuse it. If we refuse it, it really only has one other choice, and that's the dog pound. Animal control won't adopt out pit bulls.

It's a great hobby. You have to have hobbies to keep your hands busy or you'll get bored.

I left Roanoke in 1978 and came back in 2002. The libraries are basically the same -- and that's frightening to me.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.