Jeff Flake Quotes

• Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.

  Jeff Flake

  Democracy, Behavior, Reckless

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

  Jeff Flake

  Cutting, Republican, Taxes

  "Flake: Past Spending Limits Haven't Worked". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 29, 2011.

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• Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Doe, Trump

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

  Jeff Flake

  One Day, Immigration, Done

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• Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways that you would have never done before, ascribing the worst motives to your opponents, and assuming that other Americans are the enemies. And that's just not the way it used to be. And I don't think it can be that way in the future.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Enemy, Done

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• These are people who wanted to provide for their family and wanted a better life. We've got to have a secure border. But we've also, we've got to act compassionately and recognize labor markets as well. ... I've never thought that it's [path to citizenship] a bad thing. If somebody is going to be here for 20, 30 years, to give them some skin in the game, if you will, to hold out the prospect of citizenship.

  Jeff Flake

  Years, Games, People

  "Jeff Flake: Marco Rubio key on immigration". www.politico.com.

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• Este Congreso está fuera de control y necesita desesperadamente la supervisión de un adulto.

  Jeff Flake

  Political, Adults, Needs

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• Muchos de los formularios de solicitud de asignaciones son rellenados por grupos de presión y luego entregados por el personal del diputado al comité de asignaciones.

  Jeff Flake

  Filled Out, Lobbyists, Staff

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• The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

  Jeff Flake

  Country, United States, Debate

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• I'm also particularly pleased that there is bipartisan support to include the input of border communities. Not only will security be strengthened according to Washington, D.C., but border communities will have a say as well.

  Jeff Flake

  Support, Community, Immigration

  "Who Are the Gang Of 8 in Senate Immigration Debate?" by Mary McGuire, abcnews.go.com. January 30, 2013.

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• The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking minority party.

  Jeff Flake

  Party, People, Republican

  "Frontline". "Trump’s Takeover", www.pbs.org. April 10, 2018.

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• American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

  Jeff Flake

  Hombres, Humanidad, Mundo

  "Full Transcript: Jeff Flake’s Speech on the Senate Floor". www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2017.

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• I rise today with no small measure of regret, regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse.

  Jeff Flake

  Regret, Today

  "Full Transcript: Jeff Flake’s Speech on the Senate Floor". www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2017.

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• It's going to take a while for some of these things.

  Jeff Flake

  Immigration, Immigration Reform

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• After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

  Jeff Flake

  September 11, Defense, Spending

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• Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

  Jeff Flake

  Politics, Policy

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• For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Trying, Missionary

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• When a leader correctly identifies real hurt and insecurity in our country and instead of addressing it, goes looking for somebody to blame, there is perhaps nothing more devastating to a pluralistic society.

  Jeff Flake

  Country, Hurt, Real

  "Full Transcript: Jeff Flake’s Speech on the Senate Floor". www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2017.

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• I think the Respublican party's lost its way. We have given into nativism and protectionism. And I think that, if we're going to be a governing party in the future, and a majority party, we have got to go back to traditional conservatism, limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility, respect for free trade. Those are the principles that made us who we are.

  Jeff Flake

  Party, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You can't always say what's popular and you ought to go with it. I think that's why the founders were concerned about direct democracy. That's why we have a republic and that's why we have representatives who who are supposed to look at the issues and to look out for the next generation as well.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Democracy, Founders

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are.

  Jeff Flake

  Party, Thinking, Republican

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

  Jeff Flake

  Florida, States, Feels

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• Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.

  Jeff Flake

  Islamic, Views, Long

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• President Trump and his administration are right to be concerned about national security, but it's unacceptable when even legal permanent residents are being detained or turned away at airports and ports of entry.

  Jeff Flake

  Airports, President, Administration

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

  Jeff Flake

  Gobierno

  "US move to end Cuba travel restrictions", www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2002.

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