Lisa Murkowski Quotes

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

The appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all [political] parties.

I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

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.

I think Donald Trump has a significant number of issues where he is not a Republican.

I'll tell you where I stand on the issues, and then I'll let the pundits decide how to label me.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

As far as being a Republican is concerned, I come from a place, New York City, which is virtually, I mean, it is almost exclusively Democrat. And I have really started to see some of the negatives - as an example, and I have a lot of liking for this man, but the last number of months of his brother's administration were a catastrophe. And unfortunately, those few months gave us President Obama. And you can't be happy about that.

Liberals are liberals, and it's not helpful to them when they are so identified. They go out of their way to avoid being called liberal. They don't like it. They talk about Republican versus Democrat, voter identification, conservative versus liberal is where you need to look.

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

I am not a centrist.

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.