Sarah Palin

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.

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

Well, let's see. There's__f course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others. But, um.

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama__ __eath panel_ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their __evel of productivity in society,_ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

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

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

Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solutions that they wanted presented. They can't even get a phone call returned, Bill. The Dutch__hey are known, and the Norwegians__hey are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. They offered to help and yet, no, they too, with the proverbial, can't even get a phone call back.

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

We've got to stand with our North Korean allies.

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

And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!