Sarah Palin Quotes

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

... the decisive engine of impeachment.

The Constitution provided an invitation to the President and Congress to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy.

Everything the CIA does is secret and it is secret particularly from the Congress.

[William J.] Casey was guilty of Contempt of Congress from the day he was sworn in.

No matter who occupies the Presidency, Washington tends to unilateralism.

Congressional Republicans have come to understand that their last, best hope of blocking bad policy from the White House is through spending bills.

I will say, nothing in my time in the Senate has more surprised me than senators and House members want to weigh in on everything under the sun, but they do not want to weigh in on a clearly defined constitutional duty to declare war. It just stuns me.

I've put forth measures that would actually eliminate some of the executive branch power. You know, philosophically, that's where I am.

I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and Congressional ethics bodies, as well as the career civil service.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.