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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. "

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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

Transportation

Energy

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" In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state. "

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

Lisa Murkowski

Natural

" 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'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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe it is important that Title X organizations continue to receive funding. "

" Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today. "

" I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job. "

Lisa Murkowski

Got

How

" The war against terrorism is one we must win. "

" 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. "

" 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

You

Friends

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lisa Murkowski

Budget

Got

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

" I am working for Alaska's best interests. "