Political Quotes

On the recordFebruary 23, 2016
If you run a private business, and somebody created a project and you are $5 billion into it, and you find out it actually costs three times more than everybody thought, would you fire somebody?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham draws a parallel between government and private sector accountability.

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