Quotes By Lindsey Graham

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

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

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

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.

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

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.

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

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

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.

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.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

Iraq is falling apart.

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.

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.

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

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

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

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.

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

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

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government.

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

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

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

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 intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.