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

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.

No one wants to take the risk.They just have to...

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.

We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.