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

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.

— Sarah Palin

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.

— Sarah Palin

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

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

— Sarah Palin

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

— Sarah Palin

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggone sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

— Sarah Palin

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

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

— Sarah Palin

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

— Sarah Palin