The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the TIME YOUNG children LIKE mine are ready to RETIRE, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

When I first STARTED, in 2006, it was an EXCITING time. Independent, cool, WEIRD artists were being successful, and MAGAZINES were writing about them, and people were getting played on radio that were, like, really good.

It is all RIGHT for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both ASLEEP, but if one of them BEGINS to GET active, it is dangerous.

I RARELY INDULGE in SWEET things but when I do I do not LIKE to share.

Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves WOULD only provide ENOUGH oil for SIX months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would TAKE 10 years to bring this oil to the market.

Remember to REACH for the stars, and they won't be ABLE to RESIST flying into your hands!

A GOOD person can make ANOTHER person good; it MEANS that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other PERSONS will also be good.

The greatest natural RESOURCE our COUNTRY has is not oil. It's not GAS. It's not COAL. It's the GENIUS of our children.

When I was growing up, my MOTHER taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught US to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the VALUE of celebrating our DIFFERENCES.

And if I have kids one day, I can TELL them that I was FAMOUS on Instagram, which is REALLY FUNNY, and they will think that I’m really lame. Everything is temporary.

My PARENTS left LIBYA in 1979, ESCAPING political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

If we desire RESPECT for the LAW, we MUST first make the law respectable.

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix THINGS. But in this INTERCONNECTED WORLD we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one PERSON to do that.

Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to SPEAK. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the MAYOR and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I ALWAYS PUSH for local, local activity on the POLITICAL scene.

I have NEVER once asked Alaskans to LIKE how I GOT this JOB.