Lisa Murkowski Quotes

I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

The only test of electability is getting elected.

He [Jimmy Carter] can't win the presidency. I don't even know him.

One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.

I think that if the Democratic Party focuses on nominating who will make the best president, that's going to be a critical mistake. There's only one question at the end of the day, and that question is, Can the potential nominee beat Donald Trump?

If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions

I worked for Hillary [Clinton] when I was young - when she was running for the Senate. I was fundraising and things, I see all of these people as political in a way that isn't humanistic. I'm just watching and hoping that someone is going to distinguish himself or herself as comprehending what we need.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

Hillary Clinton will be a disaster for our country, a disaster in so many other ways.

Donald [Trump], is great at - at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

One of the candidates running for governor is a 100-year-old woman. Yeah, the 100-year-old says she'd like to recall Governor Gray Davis, but more importantly, she'd like to recall where she left her teeth.

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

Newt Gingrich plans to announce his campaign for president this Wednesday. I don’t know about his chances. I mean, I’m not saying Gingrich peaked in the ‘90s, but his campaign is being sponsored by Tamagotchis and Crystal Pepsi.

Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.