Top 224 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Palin

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.

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.

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.

I've said it since the day he made the sacrifice to hit the campaign trail: Voters crave the anti-status-quo politician. Everything about Donald Trump's campaign, it's avant-garde. He is crushing it in the polls.

We believe every child is created equal with the right to life.

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.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

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.

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

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.

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.

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

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.

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.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Buck up or stay in the truck.

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 guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

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.

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.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

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.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

We eat, therefore we hunt.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.

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.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

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.

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

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.

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.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.