Quotes from Jeff Flake

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

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

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

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

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

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.

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.

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

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