Top 55 Lisa Murkowski Quotes

What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.

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

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

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.

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.

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

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.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

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.

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

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

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

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

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.

I’m not a quitter – never have been.

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.

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.

Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

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

I am working for Alaska’s best interests.

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.

I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people are eating, it must be time to eat.

I am not looking for a pound of flesh from Sally Jewell.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

I am still a Republican. I have not changed that.

We’ve been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you’re walking away from the responsibility, and we’re not going to allow that.

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

I’m working for my state first.

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 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.

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

I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don’t do potlucks. To which I responded, ‘Of course we do.’

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.

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

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

I don’t buy into this, ‘Oh, poor us. We’ve got tough budget problems.’

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

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.

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

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.

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.

Our hunting areas are the grocery store.

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

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

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

I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them – it’s not an obligation to my party; it’s an obligation to Alaskans.

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