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I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Graham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 9
Air Force Officer
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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.
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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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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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It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.
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I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.
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When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system.
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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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I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.
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I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.
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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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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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I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.
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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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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 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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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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The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
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The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
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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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Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.
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