Sarah Palin Quotes
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We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.
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I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.
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I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.
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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.
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We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.
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The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.
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These global warming studies are a bunch of snake oil science.
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Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.
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Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.
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Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country. That our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.
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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.
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I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.
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Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.
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You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.
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I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach.
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We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
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Hope is not a strategy.
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Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.
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I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.
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Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.
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And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.
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Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.
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Donald Trump and his Trumpeteers, well, they're not conservative enough.
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I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.