Jeff Flake

I think that here, you know, in the Senate we aspire to be more than just one cog on a feedback loop.

We cannot continue to go year after year after year without doing that.

We need to decide whether or not we want to authorize this operation through the appropriations process.

Congress needs to weigh in. We have to make sure that our adversaries, and our allies, and, most importantly, our troops know that we speak with one voice.

Privately, a number of my colleagues have expressed concern about the direction of our politics and the behavior of the president. I think in the coming months, you'll have more people stand up.

I think that this fever will break. I don't know that it will break by next year. Right now the vast majority of those who voted Republican primaries seem to be OK with the President's policies and behavior.

President Trump's tweet threatens the alliances and agreement that ensure the stability of the entire world.

There's an undeniable potency to populous appeal by mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse scapegoat and belittle. The impulse and scapegoat and belittle threatens to turns us into a fearful back…

I don't think that we ought to normalize this kind of behavior.

It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end.

For me, it's now a matter of conscience.

Reckless outrageous and undignified behavior has become excuse and countenance as telling it like it is, when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified.

We must never adjust to the present coarseness of our national dialogue with the tone set at the top.

The impulse to scapegoat and threatens to turns us into a fearful, backward looking people. In the case of Republican Party those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful backward looking minority party. We were not made great as a…

It's not enough to be conservative, that you have to be angry that the voters want you to be angry.

If I have been critical, it is because I believe it's my obligation to do so.

Cameroon faces serious challenges with democracy and governance, as was evidenced this past weekend when the government attempted to silence political opposition by banning public meetings and travel to the region where marches were…

Thank you all for the work you are doing. It is really heartening to see so much focus now on this.

The Phase 2 settlement authorized by the bill is a reasonable and fair settlement.

The State of Arizona strongly supports S. 1770.

Regarding the Arpaio pardon, I would have preferred that the president honor the judicial process and let it take its course.

A healthy forest with fewer trees, less choked, that is a better system to have, certainly, than what we experience now in the Ponderosa Pine forest.

Between the hours of 11 am and 2 pm every day, California is pushing no-cost power----

The perception by some is that the drought ended in the West with all the rain and particularly in the Sierra Nevadas.

Thank you all for your testimony. I appreciate it.