Lisa Murkowski Quotes

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Lisa Murkowski

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 22, 1957

I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'

Lisa Murkowski

We talk a lot in Congress about how we're going to encourage more development in renewables, and we put in place a subsidy that's good for two years. Then Congress argues and bickers over whether or not we're going to extend it. As a consequence, nothing happens because we've put so much uncertainty into the prospect of these subsidies.

Lisa Murkowski

The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.

Lisa Murkowski

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.

Lisa Murkowski

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

Lisa Murkowski

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

Lisa Murkowski

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.

Lisa Murkowski

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.'

Lisa Murkowski

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.

Lisa Murkowski

I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.

Lisa Murkowski

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.

Lisa Murkowski

I'm not a gym rat. I've got a gym membership, but my schedule is so crazy I just can't keep it regular.

Lisa Murkowski

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.

Lisa Murkowski

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.

Lisa Murkowski

I have nice watches. I don't set them.

Lisa Murkowski