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Lisa Murkowski

(1957) Politician United States

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Lisa Murkowski is a politician from the United States, best known for Far from Home.

Quick Facts About Lisa Murkowski

Born: May 22, 1957
Nationality: United States
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Far from Home
Spouse: Verne Martell

About Lisa Murkowski

Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American attorney and politician who has served as Alaska's senior United States senator since 2002. She was the first woman to represent Alaska in the U.S. Congress and is the Senate's second‑most senior Republican woman. After the death of Representative Don Young, Murkowski became the dean of Alaska's congressional delegation.

Awards & Honors

Alaska Women's Hall of Fame Knights of the Order of the Falcon

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski · Page 2

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

Alaska

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

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

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I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up…

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

Basic research

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

Alaskans

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I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

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

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Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about…

Alaska

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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…

Alaska

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I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to perhaps handle situations a…

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Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who…

Experience

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I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the…

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

Coming together

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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…

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

Climate

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When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by…

Accountability

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With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an…

Cohabitation

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Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future…

Alaskans

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I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both…

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I think there are a lot of outside interests that would like to see Sarah Palin in some form of elected office.…

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So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether…

Change

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I am not here as my party's nominee. I am unique among the 100 senators in that regard.

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

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

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

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

Health

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We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

Book

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

Climate

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

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

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

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I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

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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.

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I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people…

Cell phone

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The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they…

Climate

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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…

Happiness

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To most Alaskans, Clinton is remembered as being the one individual who has shut Alaska down by vetoing ANWR when we successfully…

Alaska

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I think that the ability to export our abundant resources of LNG is good for us and quite honestly helps with the…

Ability

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

Authority

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