Jeff Flake quotes:

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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