Quotes from Lindsey Graham

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

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts.

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

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.

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 legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

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.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

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.

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 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.

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.

We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

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