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.

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

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

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.

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.