Lisa Murkowski Quotes

I think that many people are the victims of abuse every single day and can't stand up for themselves. People need to be able to understand that we need to stand united and that abuse should not be happening anymore.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

Like with all other crime, we must, of course, treat the perpetrators of these actions as the criminals they are. But unlike with the vast majority of other crime, justice is not delivered simply by punishing the perpetrator. This is because the harm associated with domestic violence extends far beyond the point of contact.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

He whipped her to make her scream and then he whipped her to make her hush.

I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.

To the predators... Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend... I say to you, 'You can choose your sin but you don't get to choose the consequences.' To the victims... I see you. I believe you... and I'm listening.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

That's the thing about abuse - it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that one suffers in silence.

Telling the truth about domestic violence - and those who shield it - should not be punished.

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.