Quotes By Lindsey Graham

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

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.

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.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Iraq is falling apart.

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

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.

We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.

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.

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

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.