Lisa Murkowski Quotes

We talk a lot in Congress about how we're going to encourage more development in renewables, and we put in place a subsidy that's good for two years. Then Congress argues and bickers over whether or not we're going to extend it. As a consequence, nothing happens because we've put so much uncertainty into the prospect of these subsidies.

- Lisa Murkowski

Congress, About, Renewables, Subsidy

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

- Lisa Murkowski

Face, Nation, Need, Reliance

There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.

- Lisa Murkowski

Guilt, Which, Appropriate, Implementing

I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.

- Lisa Murkowski

Both Sides, Very, Partisan

I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.

- Lisa Murkowski

Supported, Repeal, Obamacare

From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

- Lisa Murkowski

Through, Screening, Provided, Funds

Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.

- Lisa Murkowski

Woman, Amendment, Witnessed, Defining

I am working for Alaska's best interests.

- Lisa Murkowski

I Am, Alaska, Working, Best Interests

Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.

- Lisa Murkowski

Development, Spill, Imagine, Geology

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

- Lisa Murkowski

Best, Project, Been, Halt

America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.

- Lisa Murkowski

New, Proceed, New Jobs, Generate

What you get when you elect Lisa Murkowski is you get somebody who builds on that legacy that Ted Stevens built for our state for 40 years that continues on that path, that trajectory, to helping a young state like Alaska build us out.

- Lisa Murkowski

Legacy, Young, Helping, Trajectory

Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.

- Lisa Murkowski

Leader, Energy Production, National Security

We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.

- Lisa Murkowski

World, Been, Given, Marvelous

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

- Lisa Murkowski

Love, Exception, Telling, Binding

Alaskans need some certainty and clarity over how the Pebble Partnership intends to proceed. I understand the complexity of a project like this, and I appreciate the investments that have been made in Alaska already. But a reliable timeline has been missing, and I hope that the companies will provide one soon.

- Lisa Murkowski

Some, Been, Complexity, Pebble

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.

- Lisa Murkowski

Two, Been, Day One, Indian

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

- Lisa Murkowski

Country, Private, Romney, Massachusetts

I think that the ability to export our abundant resources of LNG is good for us and quite honestly helps with the balance-of-trade issue. Japan would love to see LNG coming from its friend and closest ally, the United States.

- Lisa Murkowski

Love, I Think, Japan, Closest

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

- Lisa Murkowski

Education, Concerned, About, Prepares

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

- Lisa Murkowski

Own, Fail, Production, Boost

I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.

- Lisa Murkowski

North America, Tallest, Landmark

If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.

- Lisa Murkowski

More, Need, Certainly, Bedrooms

We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.

- Lisa Murkowski

Own, Active, Resources, Drilling

To most Alaskans, Clinton is remembered as being the one individual who has shut Alaska down by vetoing ANWR when we successfully moved it through the Congress.

- Lisa Murkowski

Through, Shut, Successfully, ANWR

I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'

- Lisa Murkowski

Young, Asking, About, Gay Marriage

The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.

- Lisa Murkowski

Generation, Thought, Uncle, Fathom

I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

- Lisa Murkowski

Woman, Marriages, Legally, Defined

Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.

- Lisa Murkowski

Fuel, Economy, Still, Department

People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.

- Lisa Murkowski

Think, The Most Important, Visa

I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.

- Lisa Murkowski

Natural, Move, Resource, Base

What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.

- Lisa Murkowski

Captain, How, Been, Decades

I am not looking for a pound of flesh from Sally Jewell.

- Lisa Murkowski

I Am, Looking, Sally, Pound

I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up since I've been in the Senate.

- Lisa Murkowski

Give, I Wish, Been, Season

We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in.

- Lisa Murkowski

Infrastructure, Tie, Lower, Transportation

I've been working to make sure that we've got adequate transportation. I've been working to make sure that we can afford energy within our villages and in our communities.

- Lisa Murkowski

Been, Sure, Villages, Transportation

We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48.

- Lisa Murkowski

Still, Untapped, Billions, Barrels

You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to reduce the cost, you're not going to see them implemented unless there is a path of unlimited subsidies, and that's not doable, either. We can kick-start the research process, but we have to do that from a position of economic strength.

- Lisa Murkowski

Strength, Source, Allow, Implemented

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

- Lisa Murkowski

Greatness, Think, Country, Perspectives

Scott McAdams is a nice guy, but I don't know that most Alaskans believe that he's electable.

- Lisa Murkowski

Believe, Nice, Guy, Scott

I'm not a gym rat. I've got a gym membership, but my schedule is so crazy I just can't keep it regular.

- Lisa Murkowski

Membership, Rat, Got, Regular

I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.

- Lisa Murkowski

Want, Need, John, Pragmatic

In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.

- Lisa Murkowski

You, Got, State, Represent

What I look at is, do you represent the values of the state of Alaska? Do you represent the people here in terms of what it is that they need, they hope for, what they hope for their future? And Joe Miller simply does not represent that.

- Lisa Murkowski

Need, Here, Joe, Represent

You shouldn't say, 'Well, we cannot go there,' before we even had the conversation.

- Lisa Murkowski

Before, We Cannot, Even, Conversation

I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

- Lisa Murkowski

Rest, Here, Receive, Take For Granted

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Lisa Murkowski

Pursuit, Come, Include, I Believe

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

- Lisa Murkowski

Time, Nation, Spend, Blocking

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

- Lisa Murkowski

Commitment, More, Need, Apart

It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'

- Lisa Murkowski

Give, Deal, Reduce, Push

I am not here as my party's nominee. I am unique among the 100 senators in that regard.

- Lisa Murkowski

I Am, Here, Among, Nominee

It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.

- Lisa Murkowski

Race, May, Given, Vote

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

- Lisa Murkowski

Tough, Buy, Got, Budget

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

- Lisa Murkowski

Source, I Think, Issues, Cleaner

Any efforts or opportunity to expand the civil bonds and rights to anyone that wants to build a stable, happy household should be promoted.

- Lisa Murkowski

Happy, Opportunity, Bonds, Stable

Keep in mind, our demographics of our state, how it breaks down in terms of political affiliation: over half the people in this state chose not to align themselves with any party at all.

- Lisa Murkowski

Mind, Over, Half, Align

The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.

- Lisa Murkowski

Next, Allow, Sources, Energy

I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'

- Lisa Murkowski

Assistant, Senate, Which, Advised

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

- Lisa Murkowski

Away, Been, Allow, Considerable

When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.

- Lisa Murkowski

Invest, Shut, Your, Regulations

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

- Lisa Murkowski

Voting, Period, Brought, American History

Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who has the experience, respect and seniority to accomplish that. I am that senator.

- Lisa Murkowski

Experience, United, Our, Understands

I think there are a lot of outside interests that would like to see Sarah Palin in some form of elected office. Most in Alaska recognize our former governor is really not involved in or engaged in the state anymore, that she's moved to other interests.

- Lisa Murkowski

Some, Other, Engaged, Alaska

What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.

- Lisa Murkowski

Delivering, Jobs, Am, Alaska

I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them - it's not an obligation to my party; it's an obligation to Alaskans.

- Lisa Murkowski

People, Senate, Them, Alaska

I believe it is important that Title X organizations continue to receive funding.

- Lisa Murkowski

Important, Funding, Receive, Organizations

I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the H.R. 1 package.

- Lisa Murkowski

Need, Package, Funding, Vital

I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to perhaps handle situations a little bit different.

- Lisa Murkowski

Think, Level, I Think, Situations

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

- Lisa Murkowski

Strength, Freedom, Self-Reliance

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

- Lisa Murkowski

Out, Figure, Basic Research, Federal

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

- Lisa Murkowski

How, United, United States, Campaign

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

- Lisa Murkowski

Asking, More, Could, Permission

How we move forward with a level of R&D support that will be meaningful allows us to really build on and enhance our energy opportunities in this country.

- Lisa Murkowski

Country, Level, Move, Move Forward

We have so many issues in this country to focus on that worry us, that I question why there is such focus on the simple right of people to love whom they will.

- Lisa Murkowski

Love, Worry, Country, To Love

I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs people. But I don't think most Alaskans fit neatly into the Republican box or the Democratic box. They don't think of themselves that way.

- Lisa Murkowski

Think, Boxes, I Think, Neatly

So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether it's working to nail down our renewables, whether it's ensuring great efficiency in accessing all of our energy sources.

- Lisa Murkowski

Issues, Sources, Renewables, Ensuring

I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.

- Lisa Murkowski

Woman, Amendment, Limited, Enact

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

- Lisa Murkowski

Believe, Planned, Should, Parenthood

I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.

- Lisa Murkowski

Republican, Define, Going, Labels

I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people are eating, it must be time to eat.

- Lisa Murkowski

Accordingly, Then, Cell, Phone

If there's anybody who is recognized as the one guy who has stymied Alaskan development, it's Bill Clinton.

- Lisa Murkowski

Development, Bill Clinton, Bill

I will be sent back to Washington, D.C., with the grace of God and all the Alaskan voters out there because all Alaskans have asked me to go back and continue my service.

- Lisa Murkowski

Will, Go, Voters, Grace

Our hunting areas are the grocery store.

- Lisa Murkowski

Hunting, Store, Grocery, Grocery Store

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

- Lisa Murkowski

Never, How, Once, Asked

I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.

- Lisa Murkowski

Gold, Still, Turned, Plastic

I'm not a quitter - never have been.

- Lisa Murkowski

Never, Been, Quitter

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

- Lisa Murkowski

Actually, Means, Seniority, Senate

One thing that Alaskans clearly appreciate is seniority.

- Lisa Murkowski

Appreciate, One Thing, Thing, Seniority

I am still a Republican. I have not changed that.

- Lisa Murkowski

I Am, Still, Am, Republican

I have nice watches. I don't set them.

- Lisa Murkowski

Nice, Set, Them, Watches

It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.

- Lisa Murkowski

Sense, About, Caused, Argue

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

- Lisa Murkowski

War, Against, Must, Terrorism

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

- Lisa Murkowski

Test, Purity, Pass, Tea

I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.

- Lisa Murkowski

Think, I Think, About, Right Thing

I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.

- Lisa Murkowski

Other, Sure, Jobs, Resources

I am not one of those who wants Obama to fail. If he does well, that means the country's doing well.

- Lisa Murkowski

Doing, Country, Means, Fail

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