Lisa Murkowski Quotes

I’m not – I’m not going to define people by labels: who‘s a real Republican, who’s not a real Republican.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don’t pass the Tea Party‘s purity test.

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.

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.

I am working for Alaska’s best interests.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Our hunting areas are the grocery store.

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

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

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.’

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

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

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

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?’

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

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

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

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.