Lindsey Graham Quotes (99 Quotes)

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.

With his passing, South Carolina has lost one of her most noble statesmen. He served his state and nation with great character and integrity.

People in Congress need to apologize. We're growing the government at a pace that makes the Democrats look thrifty.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

I want this committee to understand that if we go down this road of putting people's hearts in play, and the only way you can have a good heart is adopt my values system, we're doing a great disservice to the judiciary,

We misunderstood the nature of what we thought would happen after Baghdad,

In these meetings she has been very guarded.

We're talking about rape and murder -- and some very serious charges.

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.

There are points in time when the president looks into the camera and makes a pretty compelling acquitting of himself about how he feels about what Ken Starr has done to him, to his family, to his friends, and how he thought the Paula Jones case was politically motivated, and I think he's very sincere. You can tell this has hurt the guy.

I've got my own mind made up about how far we want to take this thing, based on an adulterous relationship with an intern. It's got to be a serious crime ... that would subject anybody at this table to criminal prosecution, and there's a few things in there that might meet that standard,

I think the likelihood of Karl Rove being indicted in the future is virtually zero, ... Face the Nation.

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.

We couldn't get by as a nation without these workers. We as a nation sat on the sidelines since at least the '80s and allowed this problem to build up.

Most Americans would want to hold criminals responsible for destroying or injuring unborn children once that child is chosen to be had,

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,

The President's focus on Social Security as a national problem demonstrates his willingness to lead where others have chosen to demagogue.

When asked if one of those Jane Does ... That is possible. That scenario has been brewing for a long time.

What's changed It's not the quality of the nominees, it's the qualities of the process. I really do worry that we're going to take the Supreme Court nomination process and boil it down to abortion. That won't be good for the country.

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

Instead of unlimited lawsuits, the courts now will be looking at whether you're properly determined to be an enemy combatant and, if you're tried, whether or not your conviction followed the military commission procedures in place.

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

If your view of being conservative is he has to decide your way, then you're going to be disappointed,

It is not fair to our troops fighting in the war on terror to be sued in every court in the land by our enemies based on every possible complaint, ... We have done nothing today but return to the basics of the law of armed conflict where we are dealing with enemy combatants, not common criminals.

What I object to is criminalizing the war. Enemy combatants, POWs have never had access to federal court before,

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.

So I hope the president tunes it out, fulfills campaign promise of picking another well-qualified conservative, strict constructionist like John Roberts,

People are concerned. It's gone on longer than we thought. The violence is larger than we thought it would be. People are worried about our troops over in Iraq,

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.

We're going back to a model that's worked for over 200 years -- that prisoners in a war should not be able to go into court and sue the people that are fighting the war,

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.

Also appearing on Meet the Press, ... There are times when he is dancing on the head of a pin to try to describe what sexual relations are, and it gets to be humorous, but it's not going to be a knockout blow, in my opinion ... If you like the president, there are going to be times when you feel sympathy for him. If you think he's a guy you don't like, there are going to be things you'll seize upon. ...

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.

the kind of man you were, how you lived your life, what kind of lawyer you were, not your allegiance to a particular cause.

has been in the legal trenches throughout her career and has a tremendous understanding of how the law works in people's everyday lives. Her legal experience combined with her life experience makes her a solid choice.

if the Democratic Party votes against him (Roberts) en masse because of his (conservative) philosophy.

There's so much opportunity here to go back into the budget and extract some savings to help pay for this hurricane relief that I look at it as an opportunity for the Congress to get back to its roots of being fiscally sound and conservative, ... Maybe something good can come from this hurricane.

He's not an ideologue, but a true strict constructionist believing in a limited role of the courts in our society, ... Fox News Sunday.

I think history will say that George W. Bush knocked it out of the park when he selected John Roberts to be chief justice of the United States.

To be honest with you, politically, this is not anything that cannot be overcome, ... Face the Nation.

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.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

Where I come from, you call somebody at 230 in the morning, you're up to no good,

The memos you wrote while you were working for President Reagan and Bush one, in my opinion, reflect a conservative lawyer advising a conservative president about conservative policies.

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.

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.

With the economy being sluggish as it is, even though there are some signs of improvement, now is the time to put money back into the economy with a purpose, and that's to create jobs,

I think it would be unfair for him to take a fall if this is just a limited activity of a few people.

It's not just Democrats, there are some Republican members, I believe, who are not excited about witnesses because they feel it will be an affront to the dignity of the Senate,

The allegation is that when they told the grand jury about the process they made some misstatements and false allegations, ... Face the Nation.