When U.S. congressman Jeff Flake visited Havana recently, promoting legislation to let Americans travel freely to Cuba, Fidel Castro had his top aides meet with Flake to ask whether the measure could really pass. Yes, ... and tell Castro that if he doesn't behave, we're going to bring down the whole darn embargo
More Quotes from Jeff Flake:
If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they're going to return to the genuine article, and that's the Democratic Party,Jeff Flake
It's not too late to try to contain the cost of this entitlement.
Jeff Flake
There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress.
Jeff Flake
Our real leverage has come from the fear that DeLay will not have a post to come back to. They are deathly afraid of a leadership election in January.
Jeff Flake
The leadership structure has evolved with earmarks and leadership PACs where the result is that leadership is far too powerful. The rest of our colleagues share that view. To the extent we can continue to highlight that, it may serve some purpose.
Jeff Flake
I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.
Jeff Flake
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: flake, havanaWhen the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Helen Hunt Jackson
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
Leonard Baskin
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt