Ernest Poole

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

I don't like to get in front of people.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.