Lisa Murkowski Quotes
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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.
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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 believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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I have nice watches. I don't set them.
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Seniority actually means something in the Senate.
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In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.
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I am not here as my party's nominee. I am unique among the 100 senators in that regard.
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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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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.
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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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We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.
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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.