61 Quotes by Jeff Flake

We are only as good as our information, and if we lose our sense of objective truth, we lose everything. We must protect and persevere our healthy public sphere - the civic space in which we vigorously debate and negotiate, agree and disagree - or else.

The quick answer: We did it because it was cheap and easy and the real world is hard and defending a principled position to voters is harder still.

It will always be essential for conservatives to find energy and ideas by defining ourselves in opposition to the liberal impulse to find a government solution to every problem and the equally illiberal impulse to silence disagreeable speech.

Presidential power should be questioned, continually. That's what our system of government, defined by the separation of powers, is all about. It shouldn't matter whether the president belongs to my party or to another one.

Many of us thought even before Katrina we couldn't afford this benefit. We certainly today have to think we should put this benefit off.

My guess is that most states would gladly forgo 10 percent of their funding for the ability to make funding decisions,

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.

I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.

I encouraged him to get in the race as a way to draw the others out.