Lisa Murkowski Quotes

A voting record is your work product. It tells people where you stand on issues, and for better or worse it implies you're there doing what you're elected to do. It's the only litmus test available.

It takes time for 700,000 people to get to know their congressman.

Being an MP for a place you love is an extraordinary gift.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.

No member ought to be compelled to go to another man, his equal and no more, a representative of a constituency no whit superior to his own, and ask for the poor privilege of calling his measure to the attention of the House.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

I'd like to vote for a bill. But I'm not going to vote for one unless I think it's going to be good for the area I represent.

I was appointed to the Senate, and it has been my job to serve in the Senate and then to earn the vote of Minnesotans.

I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs.

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

I don't follow politics much.

I speak for the people I represent, so yes, my voice is heard. One reason they elected me is that their own individual voices may not be heard.