Jeff Flake Quotes

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

It's going to be Perry, it's going to be Romney...It's sort of a battle for the soul of the Republican Party - and they have no soul, but the space where a soul would be.

When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

If you think about conservative ideas, conservative principles, the fact that Donald Trump goes back at George W. Bush over weapons of mass destruction or gets into fights with the pope, and there's no outreach in terms of growth of the party. I think lots of people fear for the future of the party.

I think the Republican Party is cursed. And it's cursed itself.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home.

The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.

The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.