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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. "

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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

Complaining

World

" 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. "

" I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less. "

" We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum. "

" I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them. "

Lisa Murkowski

Think

Do The Right Thing

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

Lisa Murkowski

Budget

Got

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries. "

" Any efforts or opportunity to expand the civil bonds and rights to anyone that wants to build a stable, happy household should be promoted. "

" 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 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. "

" I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I am not one of those who wants Obama to fail. If he does well, that means the country's doing well. "

" If there's anybody who is recognized as the one guy who has stymied Alaskan development, it's Bill Clinton. "

" 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 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. "

" 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'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

" 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. "

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

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