Lindsey Graham – 12 Quotes

12 Quotes by Lindsey Graham

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.

– Lindsey Graham

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.

– Lindsey Graham

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

– Lindsey Graham

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.

– Lindsey Graham

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

– Lindsey Graham

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

– Lindsey Graham

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.

– Lindsey Graham

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

– Lindsey Graham

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.

– Lindsey Graham

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

– Lindsey Graham

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.

– Lindsey Graham

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.

– Lindsey Graham