I'm working for my state first.

You shouldn't say, 'Well, we cannot go there,' before we even had the conversation.

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

What you get when you elect Lisa Murkowski is you get somebody who builds on that legacy that Ted Stevens built for our state for 40 years that continues on that path, that trajectory, to helping a young state like Alaska build us out.

We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in.

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

What I look at is, do you represent the values of the state of Alaska? Do you represent the people here in terms of what it is that they need, they hope for, what they hope for their future? And Joe Miller simply does not represent that.

Our hunting areas are the grocery store.

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

I am not looking for a pound of flesh from Sally Jewell.

Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.

I am not here as my party's nominee. I am unique among the 100 senators in that regard.

There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.

I will be sent back to Washington, D.C., with the grace of God and all the Alaskan voters out there because all Alaskans have asked me to go back and continue my service.

I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them - it's not an obligation to my party; it's an obligation to Alaskans.

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.

We talk a lot in Congress about how we're going to encourage more development in renewables, and we put in place a subsidy that's good for two years. Then Congress argues and bickers over whether or not we're going to extend it. As a consequence, nothing happens because we've put so much uncertainty into the prospect of these subsidies.

How we move forward with a level of R&D support that will be meaningful allows us to really build on and enhance our energy opportunities in this country.

The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.

It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'

I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people are eating, it must be time to eat.

I have nice watches. I don't set them.

I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

I'm a bit of a loose cannon, but it keeps everyone on their toes!

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

When all my friends were into punk, I'd be singing versions of soul ballads. I thought, 'Oh my God, I don't want them to know I'm doing this.' But I really enjoyed singing those songs.

Because everyone has love or wants love there are always problems. And if you don't have problems, you're probably leading a boring life.

People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn't mean I'm rude. It just means I'm embarrassed.

She used to drive me to clubs for engagements and when I was 16 I got a job presenting a TV show in Newcastle. My mum didn't really like driving, but she carried on. Once I remember we got stuck in a snow storm, but she carried on to get me there in time. She was an amazing, incredible person.

I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

We were working class, but my mother stopped working at the mill when she married my father and he went on to become an electrical engineer and later a draughtsman. So although we were never rich he was bringing in enough money to be able to splash out occasionally.

I've always said that when people start saying, 'Oh my God, why doesn't this woman put down her bagpipes?' then I will. I just don't ever want to become like Cliff Richard.

I was fortunate enough to meet Aretha Franklin but I was so overwhelmed that I just burst out crying.

That's a part of human nature that men and women, women and women, whatever your sexuality, you flirt with each other and it's completely harmless and it doesn't really mean it crosses a line... You can tell where it is.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you're pretty and slim and glamorous there's no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

You know that something is good but you never really know how good. You always underestimate how much of an impact something is going to have.

The fame thing made me run - it got out of hand and I needed to go away.

Some women can go 12 cycles of IVF and not have a problem. They love babies. They want to have a baby - it's all encompassing. I did it just three times and then I was out. I realised that I didn't want a child.