What Sarah has to say:

“They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.” Governor Palin’s statement to media explaining her foreign policy experience.

When questioned by CBS anchor Katie Couric about which newspapers and magazines she reads regularly, Palin said she reads “all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.”

“My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars. Never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”
-Palin’s response to Matt Lauer who asked her whether she thought Africa was a country rather than a continent, as an aide to Senator McCain reported, during the campaign.

“I was happy to be invited to participate in, in this, and, uh, and, you know, for one, you need a little bit of levity in this job, especially with a, uh, so much that has gone on in the last couple of months that has been so, um, political, ah, obviously, that it’s nice to get out and, and do something to promote a local business and, and to uh, just participate in something that isn’t so, um, heavy-handed politics that, uh, invites criticism,” remarked the governor at an impromptu press conference at a turkey farm in Wasilla, while a worker at the farm, after pardoning one bird in honor of Thanksgiving, sliced a turkey’s neck, bled it out and twisted its head off dirtectly behind the governor, in the camera’s line of fire. “Certainly we’ll even invite criticism for doin’ this too, but at least this was fun!” she pronounced.

“I don’t have any idea of what the next chapter of life is going to open up into, and I look forward to just the surprises that life offers,” spoken in response to press questions about her future, at the Republican Governors convention in Miami, shortly after the election. 

“I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is. Even if it’s cracked up a little bit, maybe I’ll plough right on through that and maybe prematurely plough through it, but don’t let me miss an open door.”
Palin confiding in Fox interviewer and host, Greta Sustern, who spent two days with Palin in her home office, post-campaign.

“To any critics who say a woman can’t think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I’d just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave.”
- Palin’s response to criticism that her spring 2008 pregnancy would detract from her job as governor of Alaska.

“I can see Russia from my house…when Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state… our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of.” Palin’s answer to questions about her foreign policy experience as qualifications for the vice presidency.

You know what the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.”
- A joke she told during her speech accepting the 2008 vice presidential nomination.

“Although I’ve got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her.”
- Reference to her decision to no longer have a personal chef at the Alaska governor’s mansion.

“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.”
- Palin’s take on global warming.

“Going 400 miles with a broken arm, that’s impressive.”
- Palin on her husband Todd finishing the 2008 Tesoro Iron Dog snow machine race in February.

“Our administration cancelled that ‘bridge to nowhere.’”
- A quote from her vice presidential nomination speech.

“That will be the position I will be in as long as I’m on earth - that is, seeking the right path that God would have laid out for me.”
- Palin explaining her faith and its role in her politics.

“…until somebody answers for me what it is exactly that the vice president does every day.”
- Her response to late spring and early summer 2008 speculation that she might be the VP pick on the Republican ticket.

“Trig is beautiful and already adored by us. We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives.”
- Palin on the birth of her fifth child, Trig, who has Down’s Syndrome.