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Quotes from Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate — Jeff Flake

born 1962

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We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

If I have been critical, it is because I believe it is my obligation to do so.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly or debased appetites in us. Leadership lives by the American creed, "E pluribus unum." From many one.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

I rise today to say: enough. We must dedicate ourselves to making sure that the anomalous never becomes the normal.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

In that way and over time, we can justify almost any behavior and sacrifice any principle. I am afraid that this is where we now find ourselves.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

Humanity is not a zero sum game. When we have been at our most prosperous, we have been at our most principled, and when we do well, the rest of the world does well.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

I'm announcing today that my service in the Senate will conclude at the end of my term in early January 2019.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

I will not be complicit or silent.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end. In this century, a new phrase has entered the language to describe the accommodation of a new and undesirable order, that phrase being "the new normal."

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

At a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than by our own values and principles, let me begin by noting the somewhat obvious point that these offices that we hold are not ours indefinitely.

Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jeff Flake (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.