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Sarah Palin

Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is a former governor of Alaska and was the Republican vice presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election.

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  • "Assange is not a 'journalist,' any more than the 'editor' of al Qaeda's new English-language magazine Inspire is a 'journalist'...Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?...Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle WikiLeaks?"
    • On Wikileaks after the release of confidential US diplomatic cables [1]
  • "But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies – we're bound to by treaty."
    • In a radio interview asked how to handle the conflict (November 2010) between South and North Korea [2]
  • "...Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life."
    • On separation of church and state [3]
  • "Let me ask you, 'Do you love your freedom?'"

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  • It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.
    • On joining FOX News, as quoted in “Sarah Palin signs on as a commentator with Fox News," BBC News, 11 January 2010; [5]
  • “[I] didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea...[or from] monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.”
  • Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.
    • Backlash boots Palin from hospital fundraising, Toronto Sun, 18th December 2009; [6]
  • We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.
    • Palin's acceptance speech at the RNC. Refer to the same quote made by Westbrook Pegler;
  • Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information....Healthy debate is so important and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both. And you know, I say this too as the daughter of a science teacher. Growing up with being so privileged and blessed to be given a lot of information on, on both sides of the subject -- creationism and evolution. It's been a healthy foundation for me. But don't be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides.
    • on teaching creationism in public schools; Anchorage Daily News; October 27, 2006; [7]
  • I would choose life.
    • To a question during the 2006 AK gubernatorial debate, whether she would support a daughter's decision to resort to abortion upon being raped; [8]
  • Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now - while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.
  • [The Alaska Constitution is] my bible in governing. I try to keep it so simple by reading the thing and believing in it and living it. It's providential. Some of the crafters of the Constitution are still alive. They're my mentors, my advisers. I get to meet with these folks and ask, 'What did you mean by this?' And it makes so much sense.
    • Interview by Dimitri Vassilaros for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, conducted July 12, 2007, published July 16, 2007
  • Oh, you are so spot on. I absolutely agree with you.
    • In response to an assertion by a caller on C-SPAN's show Washington Journal on February 24, 2008, that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would "immediately" solve America's oil problems and that America's grid electricity originates in Venezuelan and Middle Eastern oil.
    • Sarah Palin (February 24, 2008). "Washington Journal". C-SPAN. Retrieved on 2008-09-04. 
  • (Hillary Clinton) does herself a disservice to even mention it, really. ... When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, 'Man, that doesn't do us any good, women in politics, or women in general, trying to progress this country.'
    • When asked about sexism directed at Clinton, March 2008 text video
  • (I told Congress) 'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere.
  • A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for.
    • Taken from a quote of Grace Hopper. Tropp, Henry S. (Fall 1984). "Grace Hopper: The Youthful Teacher of Us All". Abacus 2 (1): p. 18. ISSN 0724-6722.
    • Invoked by Palin at her introduction by Senator John McCain as his choice for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination on 29 August 2008.
  • 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.
    • dismissing global warming as influenced by human activity; Newsmax interview; August 29, 2008; [11]
  • 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.
    • Palin's acceptance speech at the RNC, referring to her mayorship of Wasilla, Alaska. [12]
  • I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly these past 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. But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.
  • The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good. Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity, and goodwill, and clear convictions, and a servant’s heart.
    • During the Republican National Convention (September 3, 2008) [rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_082908_mccain.rm C-SPAN archive]
    • The phrase "servant's heart" is from Mark 10:44, "whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all." See [13].
  • Yeah, what I did was wrong.
    • to conservative Alaskan columnist Paul Jenkins, in response to a comparison of emails showing her actions in conducting campaign business on City time to state Republican leader Randy Ruedrich conducting party business on state time; September 13, 2008; [14]
  • What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it.
  • As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska.
  • ...most of them...all of 'em...any of 'em. I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news too. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where, it's kind of suggested and it seems like, "Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C. may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?" Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
    • When asked by Katie Couric which newspapers she regularly reads; September 30, 2008 [15]
  • My response to her, I guess it was kind of flippant. But, I was sort of taken aback, like, the suggestion was, "You're way up there in a faraway place in Alaska, do you know that there are publications in the rest of the world that are read by many?" And I was taken aback by that because, I don't know, the suggestion just was a little bit of perhaps we're not in tune with the rest of the world.
    • Her response to Fox News why she wasn't able to answer Katie Couric's question about which newspapers and magazines she reads; October 3, 2008 [16][17]
  • Our opponent...is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.
  • Sen. Obama said that he wants to spread the wealth and he wants government to take your money and decide how to best to redistribute it according to his priorities. [19]
  • We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. [20]
    • Speaking October 16, 2008, at a North Carolina fund-raiser.
  • That's a great question, Brandon, and a vice-president has a really great job because not only are they there to support the president's agenda, they're there like the team member, the teammate to the president. But also, they're in charge of the United States Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom. And it's a great job and I look forward to having that job.
    • Responding to a question from a Colorado 3rd grader about what the US Vice President does; October 20, 2008. [21]
  • [Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good — things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
    • Referring to a $211,000 USDA study seeking ways to better control Bactrocera oleae, which is harmful to American agriculture. [22]
  • ...I know at the end of the day putting this in God’s hands, the right thing for America will be done, at the end of the day on Nov. 4. [23]
  • We must win, because Ohio, the far-left wing of the Democrat Party, not mainstream Democrat ideology, the values, the planks in the platform of the Democrat Party. It's the far-left wing of the party is getting ready to take over the entire federal government.
    • Campaign speech in Lakewood, Ohio, November 3, 2008 [24]
  • Don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is and even if it's cracked up a little bit, maybe I'll just plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don't let me miss an open door. And if there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door.
    • On her considering a future run for the office of President of the United States, November 10, 2008 [25]
  • "Simply waiting for low-carbon-emitting renewable capacity to be large enough will mean that it will be too late to meet the mitigation goals for reducing [carbon dioxide] that will be required under most credible climate-change models."
  • Let me go back quickly to a comfortable analogy for me and that's sports. Basketball! And I use it because you are naïve if you don't see a full court press from the national level picking away right now. A... good point guard here's what she does: she drives through a full court press pro...tecting the ball, keeping her head... up because she needs to keep her eye on the basket and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can win *gasp* and that is what I'm doing - keeping our eye on the ball that represents sound priorities remember they include energy independence and smaller government *gasp* and national security and freedom and I know when it's time to pass the ball... for victory.
    • On her resignation, July 3rd, 2009. [26]
  • "While we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather[sic][27] changes. We can say, however, that any potential benefits of proposed emissions reduction policies are far outweighed by their economic costs."
  • This is Reagan country, and perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State.
    • Speaking at a fundraiser at California State University - Stanislaus on June 25, 2010, she mistakenly assumed that Eureka College was in California, when it is, in fact, in Eureka, Illinois. [28]
  • There is no way I’m not going to love a state when you enter your borders and you look up at your state flag and you see emblazoned on that a mama grizzly.
    • Speaking at an RNC fundraiser in Anaheim, California, on October 16, 2010, she referred to the grizzly bear on California's state flag as a "mama grizzly", when in fact, it is a male bear.[29]
  • I recently won in court to stop my book 'America by Heart' from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?
    • The Economist, 4th December 2010, p.58
  • The lamestream media.
    • The Economist, 4th December 2010, p.58
  • How's that hopey changey thing working out for ya?
    • The Economist, 4th December 2010, p.58
  • Doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.
    • Tweet referring to the idea of building a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center; The Economist, 4th December 2010, p.58
  • We need a commander in chief, not a law professor.
    • Criticising Barack Obama; The Economist, 4th December 2010, p.58
  • Greta Van Susteren
    And Governor, last night, there was a lot of talk about the "Sputnik moment" that the President talked about, um... Do you agree with him? Do you f— And is this our moment?
    Sarah Palin
    That was another one of those WTF moments, when he so often repeated the "Sputnik moment" that he would aspire Americans to celebrate, and he needs to remember that, uh, what happened back then with the former Communist USSR and their victory in that, uh, er, race, to space. Yeah, they won but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it, it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union. So I listen to that "Sputnik moment", uh, talk over and over again and I think no, we don't need one of those.
  • Nobody has promised life was going to be fair. In politics, it really isn't fair. There's scrutiny, double standards and all that. Again, when it affects me personally, I'm dealing with it in a different way that others who want to bring more light to it and demand that Bill Maher apologize or that NOW defend me for something that was said. By the way, I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.
    • On the Record with Greta van Susteren, Fox News, 23 March 2011  (Borrowing a feminist slogan from Irina Dunn that is commonly misattributed to Gloria Steinem: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."[30])
    • on NOW's criticism of a vulgar remark made by Bill Maher about Palin: "Did you hear this – Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami'. I mean she said, 'These Tsunamians will not get away with this.' Oh, speaking of dumb twats, did you –"
  • I haven't heard the president say that we are at war, and that's why I too am not knowing, do we use this, the term "intervention"? Do we use "war"? Do we use "squirmish"? What is it?
  • I think my problem is that I do have the fire in my belly. I am so adamantly supportive of the good traditional things about America and our free enterprise system, and I want to make sure that America is put back on the right track, and we only do that by defeating Obama in 2012. I have that fire in my belly. It’s a matter for me a couple of practical, pragmatic decisions that have to be made. One is, with a large family, understanding the huge amount of scrutiny and the sacrifices that have to be made on my children's part, in order to see their mama run for president! But yeah, the fire in the belly, it's there! That's kind of my problem! It's such a roaring fire in my belly to preserve and restore all that’s good about America, that I struggle with that every single day.
    • On the Record with Greta van Susteren, Fox News, 19 May 2011 
    • asked by Greta Van Susteren if she has "that fire in her belly" for a presidential run
  • When Piper laid the wreath at George Washington's tomb this afternoon, I wished that every American school student could be here to see and feel the spirit of our nation's first father. Even Piper was able to grasp the significance of being in the presence of our first President — who had such diverse interests — when she told me later "how hard he must have worked to keep that farm going!"
    • "Greetings from the road in Maryland!", SarahPAC, 30 May 2011 
  • You know what, I didn't mess up about Paul Revere. Here's what Paul Revere did, he warned the Americans that the British were coming, the British were coming, and they were going to try to take our arms away and we gotta make sure that we were protecting ourselves and shoring up all our ammunitions and our firearms so that they couldn't take them, but remember that the British had already been there, many soldiers, for seven years in that area. And part of Paul Revere's ride — and it wasn’t just one ride — he was a courier, he was a messenger. Part of his ride was to warn the British that we're already there. That, hey, you're not going to succeed. You're not going to take American arms. You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. He did warn the British. And in a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly, and I know my American history.
  • He’s, I guess you could say, with all due respect, the flavor of the week because Herb Cain [sic] is the one up there who doesn’t look like he’s part of that permanent political class. Herb Cain — he came from a working-class family. He’s had to make it on his own all these years. We respect that.


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  • So Sambo beat the bitch!
    • Comments made in a diner after learning of Barack Obama clinching the Democratic Nomination (June 2008) in rivalry with Hillary Clinton, as reported in a blog article using single anonymous source which appeared in September 2008; declared to be of undetermined accuracy in a report at Snopes.com

[edit] Quotes about Palin

Alphabetized by surname.
  • What's happening to Sarah Palin right now is like the worst college exam cram period ever.
    • Heather Bruce, on her older sister's preparations for the U.S. vice-presidential candidate's debate; October 2, 2008; [32]
  • Gov. Palin supports an 'all of the above' energy approach, with first-hand experience advocating it. She has a strong record of working to cut wasteful spending. She is firmly dedicated to promoting strong families and protecting the most vulnerable in society.
  • It's like a really bad Disney movie, The Hockey Mom. "Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska", and she's president. She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd.
  • Sarah Palin rummages online frantically erasing her rabble-rousing Tweets like a Stalinist trimming non-persons out of photos.
  • In Alaska, Gov. Palin challenged a corrupt system and passed a landmark ethics reform bill. Unlike some Governors who have let spending get out control, Governor Palin has actually used her veto pen and cut budgetary spending. And she has fought hard against wasteful spending, helping to thwart senseless government projects. Sarah Palin is a governor with a record of achieving results for Alaska."
  • She talked about Reagan with great affection. But then she also talked about Lady Thatcher, and I think it's interesting for a number of our friends who assume that, if you come from Wasilla, you can't be very sophisticated. She was pretty vividly aware of who Margaret Thatcher was, and it made an impact on her as a young woman, watching and growing up in high school and college.
  • She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?
    • Lyda Green (R-Wasilla), then-President of the Alaska State Senate, August 29, 2008 [34]
  • She wouldn't have articulated one coherent policy and people would just be fawning all over her. Tony [Knowles] and I looked at each other and it was, like, this isn't about policy or Alaska issues, this is about people's most basic instincts: 'I like you, and you make me feel good.'
  • She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials. [...] I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be President of the United States.
    • Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, to the Omaha World-Herald; September 18, 2008; [35]
  • I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.
    • National Review columnist Rich Lowry, on Palin's winking during the 2008 Vice Presidential debate; [36] (October 03, 2008)
  • You know what's the worst thing about it? The greatest [thing about] McCain is no cynicism — and it is cynical.
  • In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity... In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
  • Most qualified? No. I think they went for the — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives... Every time the Republicans do that — because that's not where they live, and it's not what they're good at — they blow it.
  • How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don't know their asses from their elbows.
    • Professor and social critic Camille Paglia, writing in Salon.com in November, 2008.[1]
  • Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology — contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.
    • Professor and social critic Camille Paglia, writing in Salon.com in November, 2008.[1]
  • I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is — and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn’t speak the King’s English — big whoop! ... I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns — that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.
    • Professor and social critic Camille Paglia, writing in Salon.com in November, 2008.[1]
  • In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene.
  • People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, 'I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting.
  • A look at Palin’s 20 months in power, along with interviews with people who worked with her, shows her to be a serious executive, a governor who picked important things to do and got them done — and who didn’t just stumble into an 80 percent job-approval rating.

[edit] About Going Rogue: An American Life

  • I made a prediction when I talked to her yesterday. I said "People who get hold of this—like AP or any of the state-controlled media—they're going to focus on ... the soap opera aspects of your book and they're going to ignore what is truly one of the most substantive policy books I've read.

[edit] Notes

  1. ↑ a b c Paglia, Camille (2008). "Obama Surfs Through", from Salon.com, accessed 2011-04-20.

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