Quotes

America has an identity crisis. This is a relatively new country compared to the rest of the world, yet it's the bully that fronts to know war and democracy like none other, therefore leading the global arbitration on both fronts.

People have a good reason to be afraid of tear gas, considering it's a banned agent of war under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. Here's the catch - there's a clause in the treaty that includes an exception for domestic use. Yes, it's illegal for the U.S. military to use tear gas against ISIS, but cool to use against American citizens.

As the world's leading military and arms supplier, the U.S. is also the biggest producer of less than lethal weaponry.

Somehow the government has convinced the American people that using tear gas is perfectly harmless, despite stark evidence to the contrary.

Between yellow ribbon magnets, patriotic anthems at sports games and corporate marketing campaigns, the rhetoric that those in uniform are protecting freedom is hammered into the psyche of Americans at every turn.

If there's one thing that unifies the nation in times of perpetual war it's the pledge to 'Support the Troops.'

The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.

The stream of empty platitudes ordering troop worship is especially ironic considering the abysmal treatment veterans receive once they return home.

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

In the corporate media, there is almost no criticism of corporations or American empire.

Is it really so hard to believe the fact that Bush and his cabinet turned a blind eye to let the attacks happen, or even ensure that they happened?

Military intervention is never the answer.

I always recommend navigating the landscape and understanding where it's coming from, so don't get your media from just one source; get it from a variety of different sources but understand the bias and the source.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

Winning, you can overlook so many things.

Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.