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Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.
I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.
I'm a huge fan of bipartisanship and working together to get things done.
I am for the Second Amendment, but I am for common-sense gun legislation.
I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.
The reasons I put the uniform on are the same reasons I'm running for office.
And I'm used to being underestimated and I'm used to taking on tough fights and winning.
We need to have leaders that aren't afraid to go against the grain to call out failures in leadership.
Texans deserve a senator who represents our values, strength, courage, independence - putting Texas first.
We take responsibility for being firearm owners. We take responsibility for whose hands those guns get into.
I think women are sick of the men in office telling us they are going to protect our rights and fight for us.
We have seen a lot of barriers removed for women like myself with young children to be able to run for office.
I'm not a violent person, but I'm a capable person. I'm never looking for a fight. But I'm always ready for one.
A lot of people ask why I don't fly for the airlines now. It's because of the rebel in me that doesn't like rules.
I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.
Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.
I am a combat veteran and a working mom and a fighter, and I've already been successful taking on the dark forces in D.C.
I knew that I wanted to apply for a job in the Air Force, that I couldn't because it was a direct-combat, ground-combat role.
Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.
I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.
I didn't get a pilot slot my first time trying. We Texans don't give up easy, and everything we've accomplished is just the beginning.
We have to be leaders and sacrifice our own egos and be humble and go in and figure out what their values are, and then speak to those values.
Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.
If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?
I mean that I consider myself a feminist. I think anybody who thinks women and men should be treated equally is a feminist, whether or not they know it.
Yeah, I kind of looked around and I can't understand why nobody else is speaking up. Later when I faced the backlash of speaking up, I realized why nobody did.
I think we have some amazing leaders. But then we have some leaders who turn a blind eye to things that contribute negatively to a really difficult culture for women.
Many don't think that there are women serving in combat roles. Others think that women who do serve in combat shrink in fear when the bullets fly. I know differently.
I think of myself as a bit of a mother bear, and if anybody poses a threat to my kids they'll see both my mother's heart and my warrior spirit. I think that they're compatible.
The people who are sending our men and women in uniform into conflict need to understand that there are some things worth fighting for, but also understand the high cost of war.
My district doesn't come to vote to the polls against something because they fear something. They will come to the polls to vote for something because they are inspired by something.
It's important not to try to convince others of your own reasons for change. Finding the reason why they should want to support your efforts is the key to effective change management.
We have the tools to be a stronger nation than we were before Sept. 11, 2001. We have learned valuable lessons about the danger of growing enemies and the importance of developing alliances.
So, you know, I actually don't think it's going to be that hard to spread the message to people that their leadership - not alone John Cornyn, but including John Cornyn in a big way - is failing us.
I've seen men and women who were fit for combat that I wanted to fight beside, and men and women who I really wouldn't want to go back into combat with. It really doesn't have anything to do with gender.
I'm a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?
I would argue that growing up in a Republican area actually makes me a lot more of a viable candidate than someone who is going to demonize and alienate someone who used to be a Republican or used to vote Republican.
I'm not a big fan of dealing with stereotypes because I think everybody's unique and I have met plenty of people who have bucked their stereotypes. But there are things that women are physiologically better suited to.
I'm very confident, that I'm going to be able to deliver better leadership to Texas than John Cornyn does - more reflective of Texas values than we are of D.C. values, which is what John Cornyn represents to most Texans.
You know, when men perform in combat, they're expected to perform well. That's part of being masculine. And when one of them doesn't perform well, that man alone has let the team down, and that man alone is judged for it.
If we are to retain our position as the world's leading superpower, we must maintain our influence and diplomatic relationships. We cannot do that if we become known for abandoning our allies and reneging on our promises.
I didn't want to crash into the ocean, but from watching Han Solo navigate an asteroid field to watching movies like 'Perfect Storm,' it would always kind of get my adrenaline up, and I knew it was something I wanted to do.
I have a history with domestic violence myself. I have toddlers in my home, and I'm a gun owner. And, as a veteran, I'm a member of a community that has a very high suicide rate. So all of those things have touched my life.
In my opinion, you keep the standards very high and you maintain one standard. There shouldn't be two standards for women and men, there should be a standard for this job: To do this job, you should have to do these things.
We've got to tell our stories to influence culture, and we have to get more people elected who have faced challenges like domestic violence, working minimum-wage jobs, wondering how to get food on the table... regular people.
In the military, we are thrown into a melting pot of cultures and communities and we disagree a lot on how to accomplish the mission, but when it comes time to get the work done, we focus our energy on accomplishing the mission.
In the military, there's a sense of camaraderie that can sometimes make people bystanders. There were a lot of really good men that I served with, but many of them watched me get discriminated against while looking the other way.
The biggest problem in our government is that even those people who are there that are good and well-intended, there's too many people in positions to write legislation who have never experienced the challenges of regular people.
Our country has an opportunity to live up to our title as the leaders of the free world and to live up to our potential as being a beacon of freedom and hope and democracy - but not while that opportunity is not equal for everyone.
I've voted in a Republican primary in the past. That's something unique to Texas and a handful of other states, that we don't register as Republicans or Democrats. We vote in whichever primary we think it's more critical at the time.