Lindsey Graham quotes - page 2

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out. (Lindsey Graham)
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. View quote
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We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran. View quote
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Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality. View quote
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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. View quote
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The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions. View quote
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The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration. (Lindsey Graham)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous. View quote
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No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're failing when it comes to controlling spending. View quote
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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. View quote
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Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. View quote
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President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch. View quote
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What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to economic reality, because I do believe ... that it's in the best interest of the Chinese people to allow a market-based currency. (Lindsey Graham)
If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states. View quote
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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. View quote
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If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Occupation: American Lawyer
Born: July 9, 1955
Quotes count: 51
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