Quotes By Lindsey Graham

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.

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

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.

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.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

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

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.

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

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.

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