sarah palin quotes
Sarah Palin is one of those politicians you either love or hate, but it’s impossible to be neutral.
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American's are tiring of the obsessed partisanship that gets in the way of just doing the right thing for this country. – sarah palin
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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
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Alaskans are frustrated because there is opposition in Congress to developing our vast amount of natural resources. – sarah palin
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All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years. – sarah palin
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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
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Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people. – sarah palin
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As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position. – sarah palin
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As for vice president, it would be certainly an exciting thing to consider, but to me it's so farfetched and out there that I don't spend any time thinking about it because we have so many things to do in Alaska. – sarah palin
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As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.
– sarah palin
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Because I have both boys and girls I have a greater respect for equality and making sure that gender is not an issue and that everyone is treated equally. – sarah palin
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But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies. – sarah palin
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Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. – sarah palin
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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
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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
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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
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Even as little girl, I was very interested in current events, government, and U.S. history. My dad was an elementary school teacher so we talked a lot about current events, which built my interest–not so much in politics–but in what was happening in the world. – sarah palin
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Feeling safe in our communities is something we cannot accept any compromise on. – sarah palin
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Folks, this government isn’t too big to fail, it’s too big to succeed. – sarah palin
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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
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I am pleased to see Senator Obama acknowledge the huge potential Alaska’s natural gas reserves represent in terms of clean energy and sound jobs. – sarah palin
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I am pro-life and I believe that marriage should only be between and man and a woman. – sarah palin
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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
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I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. – sarah palin
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I have a 19 year old who's getting ready to be deployed to Iraq. His striker brigade leaves on September 11 of this year. He's 19 and he'll be gone for a year. [And so] on a personal level, when I talk about the plan for the war, let's make sure we have a plan here. – sarah palin
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I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. – sarah palin
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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
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I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad. – sarah palin
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I want people to remember me as having always conducted the state's business in an upright and honest manner. I want them to understand that I put Alaska first in every decision I made. – sarah palin
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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
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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
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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
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In 1998, [Alaskan] voters defined marriage in a traditional way, as between a man and a woman, and I think most people believed that inherent in that vote was that benefits presently supplied to couples would be exclusively supplied to married couples. – sarah palin
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In America, we believe that competition strengthens us. – sarah palin
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In the past, Alaska's reputation didn't lead the rest of America to believe we were adamant about safe, clean, responsible development here. I say that because we had legislators who are now serving prison time because they were found guilty of being corrupted for their votes on oil and gas taxes by oil and gas industry players. That reputation has really hurt Alaska, and it's no wonder that some have not wanted to believe that we are opening a new chapter in Alaska's life. – sarah palin
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I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe. Every life lost is such a tragedy. – sarah palin
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Love, Mom, Difference Buck up or stay in the truck. – sarah palin
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Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke. – sarah palin
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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
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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
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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
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Polls? Nah… they're for strippers and cross country skiers. – sarah palin
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Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. – sarah palin
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The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil. – sarah palin
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The GOP needs to live the planks of its platform, not just offer lip service. – sarah palin
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The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. – sarah palin
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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
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To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern. – sarah palin
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Usually yes, such a red state up here. It’s a no-brainer that the “R” is going to take the cake up here. But this is a little bit different situation now with Obama’s message resonating, even with Alaskans. That being change, a desire for no embracing of the status quo and politics as usual. But something different, something dynamic and charismatic. That does resonate well, that message of Obama’s. – sarah palin
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We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America. – sarah palin
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We eat, therefore we hunt. – sarah palin
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We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face. – sarah palin
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We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers. – sarah palin
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We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again. – sarah palin
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We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution. – sarah palin
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We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic? – sarah palin
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Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists. – sarah palin
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I don't have 30 years of political experience under my belt … that's a good thing, that's a healthy thing. That means my perspective is fresher, more in touch with the people I will be serving. – sarah palin
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You’re absolutely right on the cleansing that’s needed in our party, in the Republican Party. – sarah palin
