Lindsey Graham Quotes

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Lindsey Graham

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 9, 1955

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

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We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

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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.

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

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

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

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The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

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

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Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

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Iraq is falling apart.

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