Sarah Palin in Speech at 2013 CPAC conference

On Budget & Economy: No budget for 4 years? No budget is no leadership

It cost nearly 100 bucks now to fuel up your truck. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to send your child to college. Man, the cost of a case of diapers today.... These prices, the impacts on the American family budget, and the Middle Class Americans, while we're breaking their budget, the Democrat-controlled Senate refuses to pass a budget. That was how many years ago that they did? How many Trillions-in-debt-ago? All in violation of Article I Section 9, Clause 7 of our US Constitution. No budget for 4 years. No budget for 4 years is not just bureaucratic bungling. Refusing to pass a budget is refusing to declare what it intends to do with the people's money.

There is a direct correlation between the Senate stubbornly refusing to pass a budget, and the Senate selfishlessly agreeing to go ahead and spend our children and our children's money. No budget is no leadership. It is time for America to get more outraged about this. Never before have our challenges been so big and our leaders so small.

Source: Speech at 2013 Conservative Political Action Conf. Mar 16, 2013

On Gun Control: Gun laws just take away the good guys' freedom

One reason I like Texans: They don't mess around with our Second Amendment rights. All this stuff coming lately from the White House to take away the good guys' freedom, and, the right to protect ourselves with the most naive notion that the bad guys, who ignore the laws, that all of a sudden they're going to follow some new laws. It's not about the bad guys. No , it's all about the lead, like solely, that chunk of metal didn't commit the crime. That's like saying solely, that fork made me fat.

And background checks, yeah, I guess to learn more about the person's thinking and associations and intentions. More background checks? Dandy idea Mr. President--should have started with yours.

Source: Speech at 2013 Conservative Political Action Conf. Mar 16, 2013

On Jobs: 8% unemployment rate doesn't tell the story of the pain

I have news for the permanent political class in Washington. While they're busy worrying about their own political future, things are bad out here. Nearly 8% unemployment rate. It doesn't begin to capture how bad things are. Even in the dismal rates announced of .1% economic growth, that doesn't tell the story of the pain that Americans feel.

Our president fancies himself as the champion of the Middle Class, yet since he came on scene, even those lucky enough to have a job, they're working more for less. The median income for families has dropped over $5,000.00 since '07, even as we work longer and longer hours. And job creators are being punished. Tell me how does punishing the job creators, create more jobs?

Source: Speech at 2013 Conservative Political Action Conf. Mar 16, 2013

On Principles & Values: Don't rebrand the party; rebuild the country

We just lost a big election. We came in second out of two. Second position on the dogsled team is where the view never changes and the view ain't pretty.

We need to figure out then, our job. What will we do next? Let's be clear about one thing, we're not here to rebrand a party, we're here to rebuild a country. We're not here to dedicate ourselves to new talking points coming from Washington, D.C. We're not here to put a fresh coat of rhetorical paint on our party. We are not here to abandon our principles in a contest of government give-aways. That's a game we will never, ever win. We are here to restore America and the rest is just theatrics, the rest is just sound and fury. It's just making noise, and that sums up the job President Obama does today.

Source: Speech at 2013 Conservative Political Action Conf. Mar 16, 2013

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