Political Quotes

“No one is going to be put in jail because they disagree with Lindsey Graham or Barack Obama. We are trying to fight a war. I would say something even more basic. It is in my political interest, quite frankly, being from South Carolina--a very conservative State, great people--to be able to go home and say I supported legislation to make sure these terrorists trying to come here and kill us never hear the words ``you have the right to remain silent.'' Most people would cheer. It would have been in my interest years ago, quite frankly, to have gone back and said: You know what. I wish the worst thing that could happen to our guys caught by these thugs and barbarians is that they would get waterboarded. They get their heads cut off. Yet we have all these people worried about how we treat them in trying to find out a way to protect the country. That would be in my political interest, and I am sure it would probably be in your political interest to say: Wait a minute, we don't want to militarize this conflict. At the end of the day, what I wanted to say about the Senator and Senator McCain is that one of you is a warrior who has experienced worse than waterboarding and doesn't want that to be part of his country's way of doing business. The other is someone who has been a very progressive, solid, left-of-center Senator for years.…”