Quotes by Lisa Murkowski - Page 2

Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Boundaries
Currents
Geology
Standards
Occurs
Spill
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People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Legislation
Visa
Family Day People
Monumental
Most Important Thing
Oftentimes
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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 / United States Senator
Meaningful
Enhance
Move Forward
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Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Diversity
Greatness
Different Perspectives
Perspectives
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To most Alaskans, Clinton is remembered as being the one individual who has shut Alaska down by vetoing ANWR when we successfully moved it through the Congress.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Anwr
Clinton
Remembered
Shut
Successfully
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Obligation
Senate
By The People
Returned
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Grace
Voters
God Me Grace
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I've been working to make sure that we've got adequate transportation. I've been working to make sure that we can afford energy within our villages and in our communities.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Adequate
Transportation
Afford
Communities
Villages
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Active
Complaining
Drilling
Operations
Neighboring
Risky
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I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Granted
Emergency
Proper
Receive
Take For Granted
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Keep in mind, our demographics of our state, how it breaks down in terms of political affiliation: over half the people in this state chose not to align themselves with any party at all.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Affiliation
Demographics
Align
Breaks
Chose
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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 / United States Senator
Gay Marriage
Give Me
Gosh
Sons
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Independence
Declaration
Liberty
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Life Happiness God
Include
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Appropriate
Catholic
Catholic Guilt
Guilt
Implementing
Figuring
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Chosen
Drilling
Prosperity
Energy Supply
Generate
Neighbors
New Jobs
Proceed
Revenues
Supply
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Country
Energy Production
Importance
Leader
National Security
Romney
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Understands
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Environmental
Climate Change
Cleaner
Energy Source
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Every American
Fundamentally
Origin
Regardless
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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 / United States Senator
Deficit
Federal Government
Reduce
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Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Dirty
Growing Up
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There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Development
Halt
Outsiders
People
Trying
Actively
Best People Never
Claim
Project
Natural Resource
Resource
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Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Defining
Amendment
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Cultural
Shift
Witnessed
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Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who has the experience, respect and seniority to accomplish that. I am that senator.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Accomplish
Alaska
Deserve
Senate
Stand Up
Understands
United States Senate
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Pockets
Bedrooms
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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 / United States Senator
Chiefs
Everyday
Fathom
Greatest Generation
Native
Ted
Uncle
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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 / United States Senator
Closest
Japan
Abundant
Love Good See
Ally
Export
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Boxes
Democratic
Political People Way
Box
Political People Sometimes
Neatly
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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 / United States Senator
Alternatives
Coal
Energy Sources
Fuel
Gas
Natural Gas
Next Generation
Hoping
Renewables
Sources
Springboard
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Leadership
Massachusetts
Private Sector
Right Track
Romney
Track
White House
Businesses
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Sector
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Helping
Legacy
Trajectory
Builds
Elect
Ted
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Future Hope Look
Joe
Miller
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Engaged
Former
Palin
Governor
Sarah Palin
Sarah
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Climate Change
Emissions
Energy Sources
Address
Associated
Ensuring
Nail
Reduce
Renewables
Sources
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When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Accountability
Education Future Work
Expressed
Education Work Future
Prepares
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For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Commitment
Eight
Indian
Making A Difference
Ranking
Senate
Affairs
Long Day Will
Committee
Day One
Member
Natives
Served
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What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Decades
Drunk
Relate
Track
Track Record
Captain
Enviable
Unfortunately
Producing
Safely
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Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Commitment
Dry Up
Essence
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Burdensome
Invest
Cripple
Regulations
Technologies
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Deserve
Mountain
North America
Bear
Man Nothing Never
Centuries
Foot
Landmark
Peak
Tallest
Whatsoever
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Alaska
Certainty
Clarity
Complexity
Missing
Partnership
Pebble
Proceed
Reliable
Timeline
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From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Family Planning
Funding
Low Income
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Planning
Screening
Cancers
Contraceptive
Planned
Provided
Received
Services
Taxpayer
Taxpayer Money
Title
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With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Binding
Divorce
Exception
Exclusive
Federal Government
Notion
Rise
Get Married
More And More
Rates
Tie
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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 / United States Senator
Consequence
Subsidies
Uncertainty
Extend
Prospect
Renewables
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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 / United States Senator
Believer
Both Sides
Firm
Legislation
Sides
Advance
Democrats
Embraced
Republicans
Firm Believer
Partisan
Polarized
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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.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Subsidies
Unlimited
Economic Strength
Implemented
Reduce
Technologies
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