Quotes from Lindsey Graham

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

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.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When it comes to fossil fuels, we're going to find more here and use less. Over time, we're going to become energy independent. I am tired of sending $300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts. The choice between a weak economy and a strong environment is a false choice, that is not the choice I'll offer America.

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.

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.

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.

I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

If you make me your president, I'm going to put the country ahead of the party. I'm going to do what it takes to defend this nation. This nation has been great to me, and that's the only way I know to pay you back.

We have gutted our ability to detect the next attack. And I would not stand for that as president of the United States.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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