Flake, Jeff Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Senate Session

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Life on the Edge of a Bubble

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Jeff Flake:

"I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irresponsible now, given that Hurricane Katrina has created new spending priorities for the federal government,"

"If the total cost of the hurricane recovery effort approaches $200 billion, as some have suggested, that would amount to every family in the country paying about $2,500. The last thing we need to do would be to saddle taxpayers with a tax increase,"

"There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated."

"Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is a disaster."

"There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress."

"$50 billion is simply too much to give FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) all at once and ensure proper oversight."

"If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they're going to return to the genuine article, and that's the Democratic Party,"

"I have to be a little pessimistic. There is no real stomach for fiscal discipline right now."

"There was virtually no control at the border. They would go back for birthdays, for Christmas, for holidays, because they could always come back across the border easily."

"If you look at fiscal conservatism these days, it's in a sorry state. Republicans don't even pretend anymore."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel."

"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."