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

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.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

Sometimes I identify myself as 25 and I dare someone to tell me different!

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.