Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

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

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

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

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

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.

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

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

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.