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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.
Lindsey Graham
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Lindsey Graham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 9
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South Carolina
Lindsey Olin Graham
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Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.
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I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.
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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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I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the mainstream of the Republican Party. I believe the number one priority of the federal government is national defense.
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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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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 running because I think the world is falling apart.
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My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy.
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I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.
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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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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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The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
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We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
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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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I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.
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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.
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I think I've done more right than wrong on foreign policy. I've criticized the president for being weak and indecisive. I've been a problem solver in Washington and I think I've got something to offer the party and nation.
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It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.
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If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.
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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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