Lisa Murkowski Quotes
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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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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 don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.
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I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.
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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.'
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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 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 am still a Republican. I have not changed that.
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I am not looking for a pound of flesh from Sally Jewell.
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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 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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I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'
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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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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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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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We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.
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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 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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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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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.
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I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.