“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

Political Quotes

Jeff Flake

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Jeff Flake is a former U.S. Senator from Arizona, serving from 2013 to 2019 as a member of the Republican Party. He is known for his advocacy of free trade, fiscal conservatism, and a more restrained foreign policy. Flake has been a vocal critic of partisan politics and has often emphasized the importance of civility in political discourse. During his tenure, he focused on issues such as immigration reform and government accountability.

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Apr 21, 2015

I see that as a growing trend, and it is a dangerous one to have so many lines off-budget.

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Apr 21, 2015

I can not tell you how many small business entrepreneurs tell me when they go to hire for a position, that they can not find people that can pass the drug test.

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Apr 21, 2015

It is not a solution for everything, but it should help a lot.

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Apr 21, 2015

Really, when we are putting amounts off-budget, and continuing and growing OCO accounts, and we have in the base budget some of these programs, to justify that to our constituents, the taxpayers, is a bit tough.

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Apr 21, 2015

This heroin epidemic is a big and growing problem as we have seen in the statistics.

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Apr 21, 2015

the plan developed in 1990s that just do not apply today.

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Apr 21, 2015

Let me talk about OCO, Overseas Contingency Operation funding.

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Apr 21, 2015

$400,000 for a sculpture of an albino camel staring in the eye of a needle in Pakistan.

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Apr 15, 2015

I rise today to discuss the need for the Senate to pass trade promotion authority legislation. It is no secret that trade matters in the ability of the United States and our businesses here to sell goods to foreign markets and to buy what…

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Mar 26, 2015

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas…

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