If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Sarah Palin's a quitter.