Sarah Palin Quotes
"My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: American, Discovery, Journey, Presidency)
"For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Deeds, Words)
"In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Change, Politics, Careers)
"I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Life, Baby, Future, Potential)
"I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Congress, Decisions, Past, President, Public, Today, Trying)
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Community)
"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Culture, End, Ethics, Law, Luxury, Office, Reform, Self, Today)
"I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Capitalism, Conservative, Project, Republican)
"Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Country, Opinion, Washington)
"Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Care, Obligation, Old)
"Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: War, Work, Democracy, Want)
"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, Health, Common sense, Economy, Problems, Will)
"New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Enemy, Word)
"Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Blood, English)
"I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Daughters, Harm, Night, Prayer, Sons, Will)
"America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Men, Women, America, Force, Nothing, World)
"America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: America, Answers, Direction, Light, World)
"A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Being, Environment, Man, State, Will)
"Buck up or stay in the truck."
- Sarah Palin
"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: American, Energy, Workers)
"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Country, Fighting, Talk, Talking, Vote)
"When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: People, Oil, State)
"Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Media, Reason, Washington)
"We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Talk)
"We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Leaders, Will)
"I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Love, Mom, Difference)
"We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Democrats)
"Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, Competition, Needs)
"We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Policy, America, Enemies, Foreign policy, Friends)
"We eat, therefore we hunt."
- Sarah Palin
"We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: America)
"Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Mom, People, Taxes, Washington)
"To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: War, Law)
"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: People, Mosque, Koran, Building, Right, Want)
"To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, Debt, Tax, Mind, Tax cuts)
"They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Want)
"The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Party, Republican, Tea)
"The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Advice, Blame, Friends)
"The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Politics, Policy, Fault, Foreign policy, Observation, Office, Personality, President, Problems, World)
"The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Drilling, Fact, Nothing)
"The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ."
- Sarah Palin
"To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Friend, America, Children, Country, Daughters, Needs, Sons, Will, Years)
"Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Love, Challenge, Children, Needs)
"Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Politics, Challenge, Nation, Reason, Right)
"People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, People, America, Nothing, Old, Wrong)