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Lindsey Graham is an American lawyer and politician serving as a U.S. Senator from South Carolina. Known for his strong positions on national security and foreign policy, he has been an influential voice in American politics. He has played significant roles in key legislative battles and is recognized for his bipartisan efforts and shifting alliances. Here are 51 of his quotes:

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

Lindsey Graham

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

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Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

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What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Lindsey Graham

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

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We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

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The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

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There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

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Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

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Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

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Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.

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The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

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No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

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We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

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We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

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If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

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Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

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President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

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If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

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Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

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If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it.

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To young people out there, young people of color, young immigrants, this is a great state, but one thing I can say without any doubt, you can be an African American and go to the Senate but you just have to share our values. If you're a young, African American or an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative, not liberal. Graham debating Jamie Harrison in Columbia, South Carolina.

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