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

I'm not a quitter - never have been.

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

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.

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

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.

When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.

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

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'

We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.

I've been working to make sure that we've got adequate transportation. I've been working to make sure that we can afford energy within our villages and in our communities.

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.

So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether it's working to nail down our renewables, whether it's ensuring great efficiency in accessing all of our energy sources.

You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to reduce the cost, you're not going to see them implemented unless there is a path of unlimited subsidies, and that's not doable, either. We can kick-start the research process, but we have to do that from a position of economic strength.

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

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

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

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

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

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

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