Quotes from Lindsey Graham


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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.


We're going to lose Social Security and Medicare if Republicans and Democrats do not come together and find a solution like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I will be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip O'Neill.


You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.


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.


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.


According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.


Today, I'm 60, I'm not married, I don't have any kids. I would give up some Social Security to save a system that Americans are going to depend on now and in the future.


This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.


The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap.


The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.


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.


The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails.


Iraq is falling apart.


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


I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent.


I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.


At the end of the day, Mitt Romney and Ann Romney are two fine people.


Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.


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.


We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.