Lindsey Graham

I think that is well said, but having said that, the President's budget cuts aid to Jordan by $300 million. So I would like to try to restore that.

I just want the Ukrainian people to know that when we say we stand by you, that has some context.

The only trajectory we are sure of is that refugees are coming into Jordan and Lebanon at a pace that is unsustainable.

I can't understand taking everything off the table.

It has been our position that the Palestinians should recognize the Jewish state as part of their negotiating position.

At a time of $17 trillion national debt and a country being financially strapped, bipartisanship has reigned when it comes to the 1 percent of the budget that the country has available to us to affect outcomes throughout the world and help…

The Iranians would be one of the biggest winners of an unstable Afghanistan.

If you're wanting to deter the Iranians from acquiring a nuclear capability, if we abandon Afghanistan, that's the worst possible signal you could send to the Iranians about our resolve regarding national security matters.

From the American people's point of view, I hope you understand that we're trying to build defenses abroad and let armies abroad do the fighting with minimal help from us.

The Afghan people have the will and desire to move out of the darkness into the light; is that a fair statement?

The key ingredient here is will and desire.

I believe the capability of the Afghan people is fairly unlimited when it comes to reforming Afghanistan.

The biggest blow really to the Taliban and al Qaeda is girls going to school.

Terrorists thrive in ungoverned spaces and that's what we're trying to do in Afghanistan, is ensure it's not an ungoverned space.

The best way to keep this war away from our Homeland is to have lines of defense throughout the world.

This is an ideological struggle, do you agree? There's no nation state to conquer.

Let the Afghans know that economic aid will be cut off if they continue this.

If we're smart and we do this right, conditions-based withdrawal, we can leave behind a stable country that can help defend the American Homeland, or, we can leave behind a disaster that will haunt us for decades?

It's how we leave and what we leave behind.

Is it fair to say that our national security interests are not going to be judged in history by the day we left Afghanistan, but by what we left behind?

It offends me when people suggest that we're the British Empire of a long time ago or the Russians.

Would you agree with me the capabilities that are beginning to be available to terrorist organizations are greater than they were before September 11?

It cost us a lot more to ignore Afghanistan than it has to be involved.

Would you agree that Afghanistan is the central front in that battle, because this is where it all started?

We have an historic opportunity to turn a country that's been isolated in history into an ally and can be a front-line defense against al Qaeda.