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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to... by Jeff Flake

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

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

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

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I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm... by Jeff Flake

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

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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.

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.

We need to do judges -- we've done that on the floor... of the Se... by Jeff Flake

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

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.

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.

The President now has this investigation in The President sights,... by Jeff Flake

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

We've seen no additional corroborating information. by Jeff Flake

We've seen no additional corroborating information.

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

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.

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

This isn't easy for anybody, some of us have been talking for a w... by Jeff Flake

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

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.

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.

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.