Lindsey Graham

Politician

1955-07-09

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.

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

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

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• 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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• 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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