Lisa Murkowski Quotes
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What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?
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I have nice watches. I don't set them.
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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.
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We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.
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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.
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I'm not a quitter - never have been.
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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.
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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.'
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A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
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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.
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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
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In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.
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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.
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I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.
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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.
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Seniority actually means something in the Senate.
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I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
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Any efforts or opportunity to expand the civil bonds and rights to anyone that wants to build a stable, happy household should be promoted.
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We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.
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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.
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I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.
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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.
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Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.
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I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'