Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

The people don't elect U.S. presidents, God does.

If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?

Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

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.