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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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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World

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

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

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

" 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. "

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God

Grace

" 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? "

" 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'm not a gym rat. I've got a gym membership, but my schedule is so crazy I just can't keep it regular. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state. "

" 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. "

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

Lisa Murkowski

Natural

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

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

" 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'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 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. "

" A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government. "

Lisa Murkowski

Out

Basic

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

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

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

" 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 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. "