I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

If you ride in a group, then you're okay. Then the cars will respect you. But if you're riding alone, you get no respect out there from cars at all.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

...the priority of the Democrats and Republicans...is to preserve...power when [they have] it, and to gain power when [they do not]. [Their] collective priority...is to make sure that, together, they control the electoral process and under no circumstances allow an independent or third party to infringe on their exclusive franchise.