I have nice watches. I don't set them.
— 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.
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.
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.
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'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?'
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.
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.
Any efforts or opportunity to expand the civil bonds and rights to anyone that wants to build a stable, happy household should be promoted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'
One thing that Alaskans clearly appreciate is seniority.
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'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.
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.
Seniority actually means something in the Senate.
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.
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.
I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.
We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.
I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.
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.
I'm not a quitter - never have been.
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 am still a Republican. I have not changed that.
We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.
It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.
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.
I am not here as my party's nominee. I am unique among the 100 senators in that regard.
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.
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.
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 look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.
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.
I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.
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.
We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48.
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.
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 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 think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.
Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.
America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
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.
