Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I.

Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...]. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here.