Quotes from Lisa Murkowski

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

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 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.

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

One thing that Alaskans clearly appreciate is seniority.

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.

I am working for Alaska's best interests.

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.

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 have nice watches. I don't set them.

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

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 still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.

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.