Excerpts from Palin TIME Interview

"The distraction. The waste of time and money, public's time and money. It's insane to continue down this road."

"It's all for the state. It's all for the state. For me personally it's extremely tough to make a decision and an announcement like this because I love my job and I love Alaska. This is who I am. This is what I am. And serving the people of Alaska is the greatest honor."

"That hit me like a ton of bricks there, this assumption that there must be something more to it than the altruistic, sincere and articulated reasons why I know that this is best for Alaska, that there was speculation that there must be scandal."

"And that's why I'm trying to make it clear that the criticism, I invite that. But freedom of speech and that invitation to constructively criticize a public servant is a lot different than the allowance to lie, to continually to falsely accuse a public servant when they have proven over and over again that they have not done what the accuser is saying they did."

"In fact, my intention is to go out and to campaign for people who can effect change all across our nation. I can't do that from the governor's desk no matter how careful I were to be because we've got lots of double standards hitting us."

"We can't predict the next fish run, much less what's going to happen in 2012."

"President Obama is growing government outrageously and it's immoral and it's uneconomic, his plan that he tries to sell America."