Lindsey Graham

Defeat, degrade, and destroy ISIL, that should be the United States' goal?

Whatever chance there is to get a deal with Iranian nuclear ambitions, we should take.

The end game is, America's going to get attacked if we don't deal with the threat in Iraq and Syria.

We need arms to be able to stop anti---tank systems and antiaircraft systems to shoot down those airplanes.

If you think sequestration is bad for the military, you ought to see what it does to our capability to engage the world peacefully.

The enemy is on the rise, and our capabilities are going down. Is that a correct assessment?

One thing we should never allow to happen is for Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

``. . . to provide and maintain a navy; ``To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; ``To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel…

It's better for us to be part of that somebody than just to be the only ones doing it.

The goal is to destroy ISIL and all they represent.

Would you consider the recommendation to the President that allowing ISIL to maintain a safe haven in Syria and to grow in capability over time is a major threat to the United States?

So, really, it's mankind against ISIL, it's just not us against ISIL or Sunni Arab states against ISIL.

You take all the territory they hold, you take Mosul and Fallujah away from them.

Do you agree with me this is probably our last best chance to put these guys in a box and keep them there?

What does it mean to the world if we take on ISIL and they defeat the people we send in to take them all? That's a bad day for us, do you agree?

I'm a very robust Article 2 guy, but I think this is a pretty robust reading of the current AUMF.

This is a war we're fighting. It is not a counterterrorism operation. This is not Somalia. This is not Yemen. This is a turning point in the war on terror. Our strategy will fail yet again. This president needs to rise to the occasion…

Sad but true. Mr. McCONNELL. Sad but true. I recall when Prime Minister Barak was in office at the end of the Clinton years. The administration brokered a deal that Israel at that time was willing to offer and Palestine said no. It was a…

Absolutely. Mr. McCONNELL. We all remember that 10 or 12 years ago Israel--which had previously occupied Gaza for the purpose of preventing these types of devastating attacks--left. They said: We are through. They made a solid statement…

I thank the Senator very much. Senators McCain, Rubio, and Corker on the Foreign Relations Committee, all have I think revived the committee, along with Senator Menendez. The committee is probably the most effective it has been in a very…

I couldn't agree more. As a matter of fact, dismantling has become something new. They have a big stockpile of highly enriched uranium. We are talking about diluting it, but the U.N. resolution called for its removal, so this deal is to…

I know the Senator is supposed to be chairing a hearing here in a moment. But the Senator is the ranking member on Foreign Relations. I wish to compliment the Senator from Tennessee and Senator Menendez. The Senators have been a very…

Let us see if we can find some common ground here about how these laws work.

Should it? Would you accept an amendment offered by me to make sure people of conscience do not have to do something like this?

Medical encyclopedias--and I am sorry I am running over; I will wrap it up here--encourage parents to talk to the baby at 20 weeks.