46 Quotes by Jessica Lynch

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Yesterday she was feeling very weak, she was tired and she was hungry as well, ... And my mom said this morning when she called she was real high-spirited, she was able to talk a little louder, and she was excited.

She taught me to be a stronger person. She was so strong herself that it kind of rubbed off, ... I feel that's why those nine days in that hospital -- that's why I got through it. Lori was there. I could feel her giving me strength to keep going.

Nobody has told us not to talk about it. Our main concern is to get Jessie back on her feet in good health right now.

I think I provided a way to boost everybody's confidence about the war,

I think we've definitely made progress over there.

I think a lot of people expected me to come on and be much more involved in every single issue that included the university, ... But you have to realize that this is the first time we had done this and I had to remain a more silent type to really learn and develop an understanding of how things work.

We never really found a true solution to the R1 issue. We said we're going to enforce it more, but that doesn't solve the problem that you're trying to fight bad behavior with a law that singles out students and tries to keep them from living somewhere, ... Until we start talking about solutions and not treatments, it's going to be an issue again whether we like it or not.

There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.