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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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Lindsey Graham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 9
Air Force Officer
City Attorney
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United States Senator
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South Carolina
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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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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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I don`t think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.
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Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.
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The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.
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If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.
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The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
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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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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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If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.
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Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.
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There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers
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I think most Americans understand that radical Islam can't be compromised with or appeased. And the only way we can be safe is to form partnerships over there that will protect us over here.
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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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I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen.
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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.
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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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Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.
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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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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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