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

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

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that [e-mails as governor published] are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.