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I Used To Wonder If The Occasionally Rough Edges Of Politics Were Unique Here Under The Great North Star. But I Ventured Out A Bit This Past Year, And I Tell You That, As Partisan Quarrels Go, Ours Really Aren't So Bad.

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Sarah Palin

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I Used To Wonder If The Occasionally Rough Edges Of Politics Were Unique Here Under The Great North Star. But I Ventured Out A Bit This Past Year, And I Tell You That, As Partisan Quarrels Go, Ours Really Aren't So Bad.

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Hope Is Not A Strategy.

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Remembering The Past

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Bear Hunting? Come On Up And We'll Fix You Up, You Betcha. Just Be Sure You Bring Some Hunting Buddies With You, Preferably Fat Ones Who Can't Run As Fast As You.

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Challenging The Status Quo

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I Believe That There Is Great Hope And Great Potential For Every Country To Be Able To Live And Be Protected With Inalienable Rights That I Believe Are God-given.

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Sweat Is My Sanity. During The Campaign, The Days Never Went As Well If I Couldn't Get Out There And Sweat.

Inexplicable: 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 Dutch And The Norwegians, They Are Known For Dikes And For Cleaning Up Water And For Dealing With Spills.

I'm Going To Fight To Make Sure Every American Has Every Reason To Thank God, As I Thank Him: That I'm An American, A Proud Citizen Of The Greatest Country On Earth, And With Hard Work, Strong Faith And A Little Courage, Great Things Are Always Within Our Reach.

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If A Caribou Needs To Be Sacrificed For The Sake Of Energy Independence, I Say, 'mr. Caribou, Maybe You Need To Take One For The Team.'

Washington Has Got To, Across The Board, Lower Taxes For Small Businesses So That Our Mom And Pops Can Reinvest And Hire People, So That Our Businesses Can Thrive.

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Go Back To What Our Founders And Our Founding Documents Meant. They're Quite Clear That We Would Create Law Based On The God Of The Bible And The 10 Commandments.

The Lesson Of The Last Year Is This: Foreign Policy Can't Be Managed Through The Politics Of Personality, And Our President Would Do Well To Take Note Of An Observation John F. Kennedy Made Once He Was In Office - That All Of The World's Problems Aren't His Predecessor's Fault.

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.

Folks, This Government Isn't Too Big To Fail, It's Too Big To Succeed.

Oh, The Naive Obama State Department. They Say We Can't Kill Our Way Out Of War. Really? Tell That To The Nazis. Oh Wait, You Can't. They're Dead. We Killed 'em.

I Told The Congress, 'thanks, But No Thanks,' On That Bridge To Nowhere.

I Say To The Occupy Protesters - You're Occupying The Wrong Place, You're Protesting The Wrong Thing.

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'refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd Up.' English Is A Living Language. Shakespeare Liked To Coin New Words Too. Got To Celebrate It!'

Take A Stand, America! You Deserve Better. Resolve To Live Life Vibrantly By Looking To Family, Faith, And Freedom In This New Year!

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I Think Evolution Should Be Taught As An Accepted Principle. I Say That Also As The Daughter Of A School Teacher, A Science Teacher, Who Has Instilled In Me A Respect For Science. I Think It Should Be Taught In Our Schools. I Won't Ever Deny That I See The Hand Of God In This Beautiful Creation That Is Earth. But - That Is Not A Part Of State Policy Or A Local Curriculum In A School District. Science Should Be Taught In Science Class.

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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.

Bless His Heart, I Have Respect For Mitt Romney, But I Do Not Have Respect For What He Has Done Through This Debt Increase Debate. He Did This. He Waited Until It Was A Done Deal That We Would Increase The Debt Ceiling, And More Money Would Be Spent, More Money Borrowed And Then Spent On Bigger Government. And Then He Came Out And He Made A Statement, That He Didn't Like The Deal After All. You Know, You Can't Defer An Issue And Assume That The Problem Is Going To Be Then Avoided.

I've Been So Focused On State Government, I Haven't Really Focused Much On The War In Iraq.

It's Very Noble Of President Obama To Want To Stay At The Helm And Maybe Go Down With This Sinking Ship.

There Is Only One Man In This Election Who Has Ever Really Fought For You - In Places Where Winning Means Survival And Defeat Means Death - And That Man Is John Mccain

One Of The Most Important Things, That We [in Us] Have To Engage Is Unleashing Our Domestic Energy Production Opportunities. It Does Come Down To "drill, Baby, Drill," In Addition To An "all Of The Above" Energy Policy.

We Need American Sources Of Resources, We Need American Energy, Brought To You By American Ingenuity And Produced By American Workers.

If Somebody's Gonna Smoke A Joint In Their House And Not Do Anybody Else Any Harm, Then Perhaps There Are Other Things That Our Cops Should Be Looking At To Engage In And Try To Clean Up Some Of The Other Problems That We Have In Society.

I Opposed Annexing In Areas Around Our City Borders, Because I Knew That If Neighborhoods Wanted To Be A Part Of The City, Well, They Would Mandate Themselves In And Invite Themselves Into A City. That's Just One Example Of Even On A Local Level How Dangerous It Is For A Politician To Start Thinking They Know More Than That Individual Family, That Individual Business.

This Is Reagan Country. Yeah! 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.

I Say, Too, With Education, America Needs To Be Putting A Lot More Focus On That And Our Schools Have Got To Be Really Ramped Up In Terms Of The Funding That They Are Deserving. Teachers Needed To Be Paid More.

Stand Up, Speak Out, And Be Bold. Screw Political Correctness. Never Let Them Tell You To Sit Down And Shut Up.

We Need A Commander In Chief Not A Professor Of Law Standing At A Lectern - The Lectern.

They Think That, If We Were Just Smart Enough, We'd Be Able To Understand Their Policies. And I So Want To Tell 'em, And I Do Tell 'em, Oh, We're Plenty Smart, Oh Yeah - We Know What's Goin' On. And We Don't Like What's Goin' On. And We're Not Gonna Let Them Tell Us To Sit Down And Shut Up.

I Am Pro-life And I Believe That Marriage Should Only Be Between And Man And A Woman.

To Paraphrase Hemingway, People Go Broke Slowly And Then All At Once. We've Been Slowly Going Broke For Years, But Now It's Happening All At Once As The World's Capital Markets Are Demanding Action From Us, Yet Obama Assumes We'll Just Go Borrow Another Cup Of Sugar From Some Increasingly Impatient Neighbor. We Cannot Knock On Anyone's Door Anymore. And We Don't Have Any Time To Wait For Washington To Start Behaving Responsibly. We'll Be Greece Before These D.c. Politicians' False Promises Are Over. We Must Force Government To Live Within Its Means, Just As Every Business And Household Does.

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