Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Olin Grahamis an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who has served as a United States Senator from South Carolina since 2003, and has been the senior Senator from South Carolina since 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 July 1955
CityCentral, SC
CountryUnited States of America
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If you can use your common sense and you can put the whole record together, I think it was a good presentation that didn't make the point that logic and common sense would allow to be made.
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If you can go to the Native people and listen to their stories and walk away with any doubt that something's going on, I just think you're not listening.
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If you leave us confused about whether or not this is a crime or not, the impact on society is far greater than if you make the decision of -- it is a crime but proportionally ... it would not be a political death penalty case.
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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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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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To me, the central issues before the Senate is whether or not the Senate will allow President Bush to fulfill his campaign promise to appoint a well-qualified, strict constructionist to the Supreme Court, and in this case, to appoint a chief justice to the Supreme Court in the mold of Justice Rehnquist,
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The President's focus on Social Security as a national problem demonstrates his willingness to lead where others have chosen to demagogue.
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The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap.
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We have gutted our ability to detect the next attack. And I would not stand for that as president of the United States.
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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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If it was a fight, nobody laid a glove on him. He did a great job. The only way he could be vetoed is through a filibuster, and after his opening statement today I don't think anyone could ever get the political capital to mount a filibuster against this guy.
If this were a fight, they'd have called it.
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If this were a fight, the referee would have stopped it.
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If the election were tomorrow, we'd be in trouble,