Quotes from Brian Kilmeade

What I care about is maximum information.

I know the word 'sacrifice.'

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.

Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples.

Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.

John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

Their humility stopped them from seeking fame or fortune because their love of country sparked their exploits.

This is the story of how a new nation, saddled with war debt and desperate to establish credibility, was challenged by four Muslim powers. Our merchant ships were captured and the crews enslaved. Despite its youth, America would do what established western powers chose not to do: stand up to intimidation and lawlessness.

The Barbary states were already at war with America, and they seemed to understand only one kind of diplomacy—the kind that was accompanied by a cannon.

Tired of Americans being captured and held for ransom, our third president decided to take on the Barbary powers in a war that is barely remembered today but is one that, in many ways, we are still fighting.

all Washington could do was carry in his heart the gratitude he had for the sacrifices of his brave spies, which were no less meaningful for having been made in city streets and country back roads as on a battlefield.

The Barbary powers, with their mixture of greed, religious fanaticism, and self-interest, would not listen to reason. They

American—a child not of old borders and ancient alliances, but of ideals and liberty.

asked how the Barbary states could justify "[making] war upon nations who had done them no injury." The response was nothing less than chilling. According to his holy book, the Qur'an, Abdrahaman explained, "all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave." Christian sailors were, plain and simple, fair game.

We looked up to [Frederick Douglass] almost as we do to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. —Congressman George W. Murray

There were plots afoot—plans of deceit, treason, and betrayal—and the only hope the Americans had to survive them was to be prepared. Washington knew that New York City was of the utmost strategic importance from a military perspective, but even he could not anticipate how crucial the intelligence collected there would be in saving the cause for liberty. And neither side, American nor British, could yet imagine just how deep the treachery reached within its own ranks.

To Santa Anna, the Texians were ungrateful foreign immigrants