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

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

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

I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

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.

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

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.

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

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

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

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.

It was simpler just to keep things simple.

You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.