Top 100 Lindsey Graham Quotes

#1. The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

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#2. 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.

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#3. If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS ... they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

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#4. I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

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#5. There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

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#6. We need a president who can solve our problems, bring us together. We're becoming Greece if we don't work together.

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#7. 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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#8. 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.

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#9. Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

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#10. The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.

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#11. I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.

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#12. The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

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#13. Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

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#14. Is any blogger out there saying anything - do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

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#15. I want a president who'll look out for American interests. Every treaty we sign has a provision that a president of the United States , if he or she concludes that it's no longer in the interest of the country should step back from it.

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#16. You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.

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#17. 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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#18. I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.

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

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#20. I don't have kids, but I do understand family, and I understand how precious family is.

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#21. When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system.

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#22. 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.

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

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#24. The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

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

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#27. What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

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#28. 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.

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#29. I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

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#30. Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

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#31. The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

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#32. We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.

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

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#34. I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

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#35. In my view, Democrats and Republicans work together too little, and I would try to change that if I got to be president. And when it came to radical Islam, I would go after them before they come back here again.

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#36. If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

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#37. The world is literally about to blow up,

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#38. 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.

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

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

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#41. I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.

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#42. I don't see any coronation coming my way

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

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#44. I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

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#45. I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen.

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#46. I think I've done more right than wrong on foreign policy. I've criticized the president for being weak and indecisive. I've been a problem solver in Washington and I think I've got something to offer the party and nation.

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#47. Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

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#48. 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.

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#49. 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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#50. 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.

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

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#52. The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

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#53. The Iranians have shared every weapon they've ever developed with terrorist organizations. I fear they would share nuclear technology with a terrorist organization that would one day come here.

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#54. I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

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#55. We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

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#56. The best deal that Barack Obama can get will not be the best deal to be had because he's weak and indecisive.

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#57. I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.

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#58. 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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#59. We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.

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#60. 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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#61. Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could.

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#62. My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy.

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

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#64. 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.

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#65. In the eyes of the Iranians, they don't respect or fear Barack Obama. He drew a line against Assad when he used chemical weapons and did nothing about it. And our friends, the Arabs and the Israelis, don't trust President Obama.

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

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#67. Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.

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#68. I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.

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#69. Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

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

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#71. I'm glad that the NSA is trying to find out what the terrorists are up to overseas and in our country. I'm glad that activity is going on, but it is limited to tracking people who are suspected to be terrorists and who they may be talking to ... Yes, I am sure that that's what they're doing.

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#72. The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

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

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#74. At the end of the day, I think I understand the dynamic that we face. And I'm best prepared to be commander in chief on day one, with all due respect to my other colleagues, including Hillary Clinton.

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#75. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

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

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

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#78. 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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#79. What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to economic reality, because I do believe ... that it's in the best interest of the Chinese people to allow a market-based currency.

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

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#81. There will never be a bill without a pathway to citizenship signed by the president ... And in turn there will never be a pathway to citizenship without a new immigration system replacing the current one.

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#82. 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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#83. 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.

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#84. 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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#85. Iraq is falling apart.

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#86. I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the mainstream of the Republican Party. I believe the number one priority of the federal government is national defense.

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#87. I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

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

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#89. 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.

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

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#91. I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

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#92. If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

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#93. We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American businesses. Thirty-five percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don't leave. The goal is to help the middle class.

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#94. We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

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#95. What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith.

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#96. 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.

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#97. Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

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#98. Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

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#99. What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

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#100. The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

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