Sarah Palin Quotes
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That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that we have with - Canada. We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America where - where do they go? It's Alaska.
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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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Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.
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We should create law based on the God of the Bible.
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Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.
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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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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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A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
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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 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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Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.
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I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.
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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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The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.
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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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We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.
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You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams
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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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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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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.
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Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um, a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.
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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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The man can only ride you when your back is bent.
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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.