"someponys call me a hero for bringing Equestria together again, and that's how I'll make you feel. When you're riding shotgun with me and the tyrants are under our wheels. and when the chase is done and this war is won I'll take off back to Appleoosa and leave you all the fun. (fun, fun.)"

- Apple Cake, 1011, offering Twilight Sparkle the position as her running mate in the first election of the grand equestrian republic.