Dana Stabenow

“When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.”

“Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska?”

“We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin”

“To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.”

“That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.”