"I just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they’ll write these stupid stories,they are just so stupid it’s awful. I tell you, the sooner the print press goes away, the better society will be."

"The blacks, the NAACP flashes one brush makes all white people with one brush. To say that every white American is a racist is an insult. The NAACP should apologize to the white people, to the people from the north for fighting their battle. In 1964 when we were desegregating schools there were a lot of people from the North who went down to the South were killed for trying to help the blacks. And now they paint one brush and say all whites are racists, I'm sorry, we're not. Some of us are abolitionists, I'm a strong abolitionist, I'm a strong Lincoln supporter, I'm a strong Grant supporter, I'm a strong Dwight D. Eisenhower supporter, I think LBJ did the right thing – I'm all in."

"You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy and the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of color or people of Hispanic origin."

"When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825. And we would have a duel, that’s how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you, I would not be (Alexander) Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he’s been in this Legislature to help move the state forward."

"Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. You ought to look into that! You make me so sick!"

"I'm sorry, I’m done... Thank you, you idiots out back there with the signs."

"The death penalty should be appropriate for people who kill Mainers. In my opinion, we should give them an injection of the stuff they sell. What we ought to do is bring the guillotine back. We could have public executions"

"I think the Speaker of the House should go back home to where he was born, and I think that Mr. Alfond should be put in a playpen."

"Sen. Jackson claims to be for the people, but he's the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline."

"The minute we start stifling our speech, we might as well go home, roll up our sleeves and get our guns out."

"I don't care if it's my bills. I'll veto my own bills."

"If you want a good education in Maine, and I get criticized by my opponents because I’m hard on education, but if you want a good education, go to an academy. If you want a good education go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school."

"The press. Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies."

“The only thing that I’ve heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. So the worst case is some women may have little beards.”

“As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.”