Lindsey Graham

If I just walked into this room not knowing the context, I would think that a 40 percent retirement change had been recommended by the committee for those on Active Duty.

But we will not accept demagoguery. We are not going to play that game.

I am willing to stretch myself and my party. I am willing to do revenue to get us to entitlement reform.

I am really tired of bailing out water when the boat has got a hole in it a mile wide.

You are not going to tax your way into prosperity and you are not going to cut your way into prosperity.

Does that not cry out for rational immigration reform?

I just want to be in the camp of saying that I am not going to support a budget that continues to gut the military.

Unless something changes, all the money we are going to collect in taxes in the future... is going to go to pay for two government programs, Medicare and Social Security.

I would expect when we do our budget, and I know we will under Senator Enzi's leadership, that you will probably like our budget about as much as we like yours.

Immigration reform is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to improve the solvency of Social Security going forward.

I could not agree with you more, Senator.

We cannot do this by ourselves. We are going to need the commander in chief to weigh in and inform the American people that the sequestration cuts are unacceptable not just on the defense side.

I think it is 2.3. Can you do me a favor and check among yourselves and send us...

The military has been the strongest advocate for a robust foreign assistance account.

Mr. President, help us.

I did not feel comfortable at the end of the day yesterday with the idea that I could vote for her because of the fact that I did not get answers to questions that I find very troubling.

The second tool is to hold an American citizen, or a non-citizen, under the law of war for the purposes of intelligence gathering.

One of the tools to combat this war is to use lethal force against an American citizen who our Government has determined to be part of the enemy force.

If they meet those criteria, the President can order the use of lethal force.

You are going to get killed if we can find you.

We have held several American citizens for a multiple period of years as enemy combatants: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.

If we do not hold some of these people under the law of war for questioning as an enemy combatant, then we are going to lose the ability to gather intelligence.

You will never convince me criminalizing the war is the best way to gather intelligence.

I believe waterboarding is torture and it is illegal.

Do you agree with me that one of the worst possible outcomes is for the United States to release somebody from Guantanamo Bay to go back to the fight to kill an American SEAL, or anyone else?