Lisa Murkowski Quotes

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Lisa Murkowski

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 22, 1957

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.

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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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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.

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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 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.

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I'm not a quitter - never have been.

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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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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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If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.

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

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

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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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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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I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.

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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.

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I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

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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.

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