Lisa Murkowski Quotes
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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'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.
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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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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.
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I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.
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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.
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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.
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I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.
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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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I am not looking for a pound of flesh from Sally Jewell.
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I am still a Republican. I have not changed that.
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I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.
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We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.
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I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.
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We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48.
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We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.