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Well, It's Always, Though, Safer In Politics To Avoid Risk, To Just Kind Of Go Along With The Status Quo. But I Didn't Get Into Government To Do The Safe And Easy Things. A Ship In Harbor Is Safe, But That's Not Why The Ship Is Built. Politics Isn't Just A Game Of Competing Interests And Clashing Parties. 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.

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Well, It's Always, Though, Safer In Politics To Avoid Risk, To Just Kind Of Go Along With The Status Quo. But I Didn't Get Into Government To Do The Safe And Easy Things. A Ship In Harbor Is Safe, But That's Not Why The Ship Is Built. Politics Isn't Just A Game Of Competing Interests And Clashing Parties. 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.

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University Degrees

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Remembering The Past

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Going With The Flow

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When It Rains It Pours

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The Administration Says, Then, There Are No Downsides Or Upsides To Treating Terrorists Like Civilian Criminal Defendants, But A Lot Of Us Would Beg To Differ.

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Challenging The Status Quo

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There Were Times (during My Early Campaigns) When I Thought, "you Know What I Could Really Use? A Wife."

When We Talk About Fighting For Our Country, We're Talking About Our Vote, Our Vote Is Our Arms.

You Know What? I Didn't Mess Up About Paul Revere... In A Shout-out, Gotcha Type Of Question That Was Asked Of Me, I Answered Candidly. And I Know My American History.

American History

To The Families Of Special Needs Children All Across This Country I Have A Message For You: For Years You Have Sought To Make America A More Welcoming Place For Your Sons And Daughters, And I Pledge To You That If We're Elected, You Will Have A Friend, An Advocate, In The White House.

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.

Sometimes We're Actually Right When We Go With Our Gut And Stand On Principle In Supporting Underdog Candidates.

A Gasline Will Help Shape Our Economic Future - The Same Way That Oil Has Shaped Our Economic Present.

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

For A Season, A Gifted Speaker Can Inspire With His Words, But For A Lifetime John Mccain Has Inspired With His Deeds.

Keep Moving Forward

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.

I Love Those Hockey Moms. You Know What They Say The Difference Between A Hockey Mom And A Pit Bull Is? Lipstick.

Well, If I Were In Charge, They Would Know That Waterboarding Is How We Baptize Terrorists.

Canada Needs To Dismantle Its Public Health-care System And Allow Private Enterprise To Get Involved And Turn A Profit.

That Alaska Has A Very Narrow Maritime Border Between A Foreign Country, Russia, And On Our Other Side, The Land Boundary That We Have With - Canada. We Have Trade Missions Back And Forth. We - We Do - It's Very Important When You Consider Even National Security Issues With Russia As Putin Rears His Head And Comes Into The Airspace Of The United States Of America Where - Where Do They Go? It's Alaska.

When I Took My Oath Of Office To Serve As Your Governor, Remember, I Swore To Steadfastly And Doggedly Guard The Interests Of This Great State Like A Grizzly With Cubs, As A Mother Naturally Guards Her Own. Alaska, As A Statewide Family, We've Got To Fight For Each Other, Not Against And Not Let External, Sensationalized Distractions Draw Us Off Course. As An Exciting Year Of Unpredictable Change Begins, We, Too, Have Our Work Cut Out For Us. And We're All In This Together. Just Like Our Musk Ox, They Circle Up To Protect Their Future When They Are Challenged. We've Got To Do The Same.

We Have To Fight For Our Freedoms, Also, Economic And Our National Security Freedoms.

National Security

I Think A Lot Of People Are Capitalizing, Perhaps Exploiting, What Was Done Via Me, My Family, My Administration.

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.

As Putin Rears His Head And Comes Into The Air Space Of The United States Of America, Where – Where Do They Go? It's Alaska. It's Just Right Over The Border.

Patriotic Is Saying, Government, You Know, You're Not Always The Solution.

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