Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

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

Remember, the enemy comes to kill still and destroy. But now they're going to inspect themselves? Oh, what could go wrong with that? Yes, don't call us. We'll call you, they say. And that's really good because [Barack] Obama is standing by with his mighty phone and his mighty pen in case they stretch the truth a little. And they start dropping bombs.

I can tweet before going to bed at midnight or 1 and know that they're up and at 'em, and they're going to have to respond.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. It's to maximize benefits for Alaskans, not an individual company, not some multinational somewhere, but for Alaskans.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.