I perform for soldiers because they are important,'

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

I perform for soldiers because they are important,'

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

I've been rapping since 1979.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

We take pride in what we do.

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Gangsta rap is a derogatory label.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.