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" What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission? "
Lisa Murkowski
Choose
Washington
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" We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48. "
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" Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance. "
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" I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less. "
Lisa Murkowski
Commitment
Society
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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. "
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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. "
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" We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given. "
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Given
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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. "
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Life
God
Government
" 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
Great
Efficiency
Down
" We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in. "
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Us
Tie
Transportation
" What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state. "
Lisa Murkowski
I Am
Hope
Future
" 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. "
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Level
Handle
Fair
" 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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Complaining
World
Us
" 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
Money
Women
Planning
" 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. "
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Alaska
Congress
Down
" I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test. "
Lisa Murkowski
Pass
Party
Tea
" 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
Think
Education
Future
" I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.' "
Lisa Murkowski
Us
Budget
Got
" 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. "
Lisa Murkowski
Rat
Crazy
Gym
" 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
Path
Strength
Process
" The war against terrorism is one we must win. "
Lisa Murkowski
Against
Terrorism
War
" I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare. "
Lisa Murkowski
Repeal
Supported
Obamacare
" I believe it is important that Title X organizations continue to receive funding. "
Lisa Murkowski
Believe
Important
I Believe
" 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. "
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Clarity
Partnership
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" I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded. "
Lisa Murkowski
Planned Parenthood
Planned
Believe
" 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
People
Party
Mind
" 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
Money
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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. "
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Mountain
Nothing
Man
" I'm not a quitter - never have been. "
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Never
Been
Quitter
" We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum. "
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Reliance
Face
Nation
" 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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Think
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