46 ordspråk av Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
The White House wants (immigration reform), and many of us in the House do so as well,
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There just is no vision for limited government,
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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.
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There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress.
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There's kind of a left-right coalition against it.
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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.
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They want to keep the ability to hide earmarks. They don't want the scrutiny.
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Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is a disaster.
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We can't afford that new benefit.
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We in the House have plenty of time between now and Thanksgiving to do it.
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We need more honest government. We need a more open process, a more honest process.
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We've got to take some of these definitions with a huge grain of salt.
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You can't defend it,
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You'd be sending home parents who brought kids here when they were 2. Do you leave the kids here with the neighbors for 10 years? That's not a very conservative position in my view.
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[Since then Mr. Hastert and his fellow GOP leaders have skillfully used their narrow majority to win an amazing number of close votes without having to negotiate much with Democrats. But gradually the fear of losing their majority has also begun leading them to behave more and more like the big-spending Democrats they unseated.] Holding the majority used to be viewed as a means to an end--the end being promoting freedom and limited government, ... Now, holding the majority seems to be an end in itself--holding onto power for the sake of holding onto power.
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