Quotes About Sarah Palin

#1. People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Sarah Palin

#2. Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

Mark McKinnon

#3. There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we finally find out who shot Bambi's mother.

Conan O'Brien

#4. Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.

Jay Parini

#5. Polls? Nah ... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

Sarah Palin

#6. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.

George Packer

#7. Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?

Susan Estrich

#8. Sarah Palin has admitted she tried marijuana several years ago, but she did not like it. She said it distorted her perceptions, impaired her thinking, and she's hoping that the effects will eventually wear off.

Jay Leno

#9. Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.

Craig Ferguson

#10. I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

Sarah Palin

#11. Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#12. New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Sarah Palin

#13. So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

Sarah Palin

#14. Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

Joe Bageant

#15. To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

Sarah Palin

#16. The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Sarah Palin

#17. It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

Dee Dee Myers

#18. America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Sarah Palin

#19. 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.

Sarah Palin

#20. Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

Henry Rollins

#21. The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC.

Conan O'Brien

#22. Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

Bill Maher

#23. But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.

Sarah Palin

#24. The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?

Bill Maher

#25. Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

Sarah Palin

#26. I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out.

Sarah Palin

#27. It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

David Ignatius

#28. I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.

Meghan McCain

#29. I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.

Sarah Palin

#30. In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

Rudy Giuliani

#31. They determined who got the first question by a coin toss, to which Sarah Palin said, 'Oh, what a coincidence, that's how I got picked.'

Jay Leno

#32. We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

Sarah Palin

#33. John McCain said that Barack Obama is already measuring the drapes in the White House. That's what he said. I understand Sarah Palin is already driving McCain around to look at assisted living facilities.

Jay Leno

#34. I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

Sarah Palin

#35. I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

Aaron Sorkin

#36. Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

Jesse Ventura

#37. I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.

Nadine Dorries

#38. How do you know there's not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?

Sarah Palin

#39. Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

Chris Hayes

#40. This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars - they would think the country has gone insane.

Noam Chomsky

#41. Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

John F. Kerry

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

Sarah Palin

#43. 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.

Sarah Palin

#44. John McCain and I, and our camps, are working together to get John McCain elected.

Sarah Palin

#45. What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.

Rebecca Traister

#46. Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.

Sarah Palin

#47. Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

David Letterman

#48. Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled 12-year-old. I have enough trouble with Sarah Palin.

Bill Maher

#49. The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

Conan O'Brien

#50. Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

Tina Brown

#51. Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Robin Williams

#52. I am pro-life and I believe that marriage should only be between and man and a woman.

Sarah Palin

#53. For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

Sarah Palin

#54. I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

Penn Jillette

#55. In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

Sarah Palin

#56. I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals - right next to the mashed potatoes.

Sarah Palin

#57. [Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

Sarah Palin

#58. When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

Sarah Palin

#59. Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Sarah Palin

#60. In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

Ann Coulter

#61. Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

Sarah Palin

#62. They say the oil spill has the potential to kill more wildlife than a Sarah Palin hunting trip.

David Letterman

#63. What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

Sarah Palin

#64. I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago ... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

Matt Damon

#65. We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

Sarah Palin

#66. Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out on the ice and skate around reporters' questions, so it should be interesting.

Jay Leno

#67. 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.

Sarah Palin

#68. What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented ... The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.

Sarah Palin

#69. Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.

Sarah Palin

#70. I've said it since the day he made the sacrifice to hit the campaign trail: Voters crave the anti-status-quo politician. Everything about Donald Trump's campaign, it's avant-garde. He is crushing it in the polls.

Sarah Palin

#71. I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.

Nicolle Wallace

#72. 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.

Sarah Palin

#73. Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

#74. That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

Sarah Palin

#75. Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

Sarah Palin

#76. We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Sarah Palin

#77. I think that Sarah Palin really missed the chance to educate the public on what some of the challenges her son is actually facing.

Jon Soltz

#78. Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn ... you can learn, um, a lot of things ... a lot of things from the experience ... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.

Sarah Palin

#79. To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Sarah Palin

#80. Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend.

Sarah Palin

#81. Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted.

John Oliver

#82. I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.

Paul Johnson

#83. My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.

Nicolle Wallace

#84. If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.

Megyn Kelly

#85. You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams

Sarah Palin

#86. He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

Sarah Palin

#87. I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

Noam Chomsky

#88. You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere ... [I]n a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

Sarah Palin

#89. It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

Sam Harris

#90. Sarah Palin should not be on vacation. She should be in summer school.

Bill Maher

#91. Unless 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

#92. This is Reagan country. Yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and inter-linked to the Golden State.

Sarah Palin

#93. Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

Sarah Palin

#94. Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

Craig Ferguson

#95. Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

Michele Bachmann

#96. We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.

Bill Maher

#97. Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.

Craig Ferguson

#98. Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

Sarah Palin

#99. Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

Sarah Palin

#100. Children with special needs inspire a special love.

Sarah Palin