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Jeff Flake

Jeffry Lane "Jeff" Flake (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Arizona.

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If Democratic Senate fails, Democratic Senate's it -- I can't require passage, what I can require is that Democratic Senate be brought to a vote.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We need to do judges -- we've done that on the floor... of the Senate.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I hope that [ Democrats ] continue to push for that, but the first step has to be having this bill [ pass ], if we can do that first, there's a far greater likelihood that it will be attached as part of the spending bill.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

How in the world my colleagues don't see this as a priority now, I just don't understand, it does need to come to the Senate floor, and I think its worth using a little leverage here.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

The President now has this investigation in The President sights, and we all know it.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

The President has said that The President's not going to move on the special counsel. But that's not enough, and perhaps that's what gives comfort to the majority leader. ... But it doesn't give comfort to me.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We have been told that the bill that Sen. Chris Coons and I will move to bring up shortly is not necessary, as there have been no indications that the independence of Mr. Mueller's investigation is in jeopardy, that may have been an arguable position before last week. But it is not arguable anymore.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We've seen no additional corroborating information.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I'm waiting just like you, certainly, if they find something, I'm going to take that into consideration.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

Yesterday, we heard compelling testimony from Dr. Ford, as well as Christine Blasey Ford from Judge Kavanaugh. I wish that I could express the confidence that some of my colleagues have conveyed about what either did or did not happen in the early 1980s, but I left the hearing yesterday with as much doubt as certainty.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We ought to do what we can to make sure that we do all due diligence with a nomination this important.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

This isn't easy for anybody, some of us have been talking for a while -- similar questions I guess.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I must also say that separate and apart from this nomination and the facts that pertain to it, I do not believe that the claim of sexual assault is invalid because a 15-year-old girl didn't promptly report the assault to the authorities, as the President of the United States said just two days ago.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

And so these witnesses who will testify in a very important hearing tomorrow, these unwitting combatants in an undeclared war -- these people are not props for us to make our political points, nor are they to be' demolished like Anita Hill' as was said on conservative media the other night, nor is one them a' proven sex criminal' as has been circulating on the left side of the Internet.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I am not psychic, i am not gifted with clairvoyance. Given these limitations, I'll have to listen to the testimony before I make up my mind about the testimony.

– Jeff Flake

Found on FOX News 5 years ago

I think we'll have to move to the markup.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

It's tough to imagine politics without John McCain. But we need to go on.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

He serves at the President's pleasure, so The President can fire The President. I sincerely hope that he doesn't. People worry about about the domino — if Attorney General Sessions goes, who's next ? Is it Rod Rosenstein ? Obviously, the President's comments yesterday, The President just keeps going further and further, attorney General Sessions did the right thing to recuse Attorney General Sessions. And for The President to say otherwise just is simply wrong. So I hope that The President stops trying to undermine the credibility of the Department of Justice, and let Attorney General Sessions serve.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

There are typically notes that are taken. I'm assuming that some of the information could only be given in a classified setting so I would think that before the relevant committees, I'm not saying it ought to be done in a public hearing, we at least ought to get access to the notes that the translators keep.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I have a chapter in there about some doctors that saved my father-in-law. They came from majority-Muslim countries that under the current travel ban, they probably wouldn't be here, so I think we ought to look as Republicans, I hope we are always welcoming of immigrants.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

It's always' let's wait and get through the midterms and then we'll rein the President in' or' then we'll assert our constitutional prerogatives,' but we've got to be all together now.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

If you value re-election above all else, then find a way to accommodate the President, i don't know what other message you can draw from what's happened. This is the President's Party.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I doubt we ’ll be there the whole time, typically when people smell jet fumes, they find a way to be a little more cooperative.

– Jeff Flake

Found on FOX News 5 years ago

I've said many times, this is a tough party right now for a Republican like me, so, it is tough to get through a primary, if you agree with the President's positions or condone his behavior. So, I just can't do that.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

This is the first time that a number of senators have actually stood up, a number of Senators from the President's party and said,' No, Jeff Flake can't do that, and we're going to pass legislation to rein this in,' and so that is our prerogative, that's what we should be doing, that's what we should have been doing sooner than now.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

The Constitution gives Congress the primary role in regulating trade, and certainly tariffs, not the President, so, the President is using an exemption that was never intended for that purpose.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We were talking specifically about connectivity, but also about the challenges that have come up. Obviously we have had some setbacks.

– Jeff Flake

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

The president had this diversion tactic, obviously, with so-called Spygate, there is concern that the president is laying the groundwork to move on Bob Mueller or Rosenstein. If that were to happen, obviously, that would cause a constitutional crisis.

– Jeff Flake

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

While I thank Ms. Haspel for Gina Haspel long and dedicated service to the CIA, as a country we need to turn the page on the unfortunate chapter in the agency's history having to do with torture.

– Jeff Flake

Found on FOX News 5 years ago

While I thank Ms. Haspel for her long and dedicated service to the CIA, as a country we need to turn the page on the unfortunate chapter in the agency's history having to do with torture.

– Jeff Flake

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

When they saw the President and other officials -- the RNC -- backing someone like Roy Moore, too many people are saying,' That's not my party,'.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I wouldn't gauge what support there is a year-and-a-half from now from what support there is now, certainly, now, Donald Trump party is Donald Trump party. The base is with Donald Trump in a big way. Believe me, we all know. But that's not to say that will hold.

– Jeff Flake

Found on CNN 6 years ago

Fully automatic weapons have been justifiably illegal for civilian use for over 30 years. Any device which circumvents that law by increasing a weapon’s rate of fire from semi-automatic to fully automatic ought to be illegal as well, i am encouraged by the president’s directive... to regulate these devices, but a temporary regulatory fix is no substitute for permanent law.

– Jeff Flake