"I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick."
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We eat, therefore we hunt."
"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."
"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."
"The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible."
"America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face."
"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."
"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."
"Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful."
"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."
"To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."
"For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds."
"My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery."
"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."
"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."
"The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all."