Sarah Palin, a multifaceted American figure, served as Alaska’s first female governor (2006-2009). National fame came as John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential pick. Resigning amidst controversy, she transitioned to media, becoming a Fox News contributor and reality TV personality. Palin’s views and personality draw passionate reactions. Her 2008 campaign amplified female and outsider voices in conservative politics. Though polarizing, she continues to influence conservative media and politics.
Sarah Palin Quotes
1. “They say the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull – lipstick.”
— Sarah Palin
2. “I love the smell of emissions.”
— Sarah Palin
3. “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”
— Sarah Palin
4. “We’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.”
— Sarah Palin
5. “Here’s an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance – say chest size – it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don’t need them to look at.”
— Sarah Palin
6. “Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously, I haven’t learned enough to dismiss common sense.”
— Sarah Palin
7. “Well, let’s see. There’s – of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others. But, um.”
— Sarah Palin
8. “God’s will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”
— Sarah Palin
9. “Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solutions that they wanted presented. They can’t even get a phone call returned, Bill. The Dutch – they are known, and the Norwegians – they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. They offered to help and yet, no, they too, with the proverbial, can’t even get a phone call back.”
— Sarah Palin
10. “It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia.”
— Sarah Palin
11. “It always puzzled me how some of the people who think killing and eating animals in the wild is somehow cruel have no problem buying dead animals at the grocery store, wrapped in cellophane instead of fur.”
— Sarah Palin
12. “Unless the government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!”
— Sarah Palin
13. “It’s not interesting stuff that they’re making up and writing, and that’s why they’re going down.”
— Sarah Palin
