Lindsey Graham

Good news/bad news, I guess.

Do you worry about a cyber 9/11?

We are going to try to put nation states on notice that if you continue to do this, you are going to pay a price.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Enjoy the easy question period you are about to embark upon, because he will be back.

Senator Lindsey Graham called ECA's exchange programs 'national security insurance' because if you send people back to their home after they have been here, seen what America is really about...

I would just like to say that, Senator Leahy, I think we've got a good partnership.

Our goal is not just to write checks forever, but actually get the country in question so they can deal with it themselves.

I think Senator Leahy and I are both very concerned about a State Department army. We don't want to go down that road.

I support that as long as there's a residual force left.

Although it is a different branch of government doing it, when we are training soldiers in a country that is supposedly our ally, and they turn around and shoot us, we should ask ourselves what in the world we are doing.

Every time we can solve a problem without using our military, the security benefits of being involved in Africa--we don't have a whole lot of a military presence--of improving life there is a real blow to radical Islamists.

I believe it's been a good investment, and I worry about radical Islam migrating to Africa and trying to radicalize Muslim minority populations.

Our heart goes out to their family, and I hope it reminds those of us in the Congress that your people are in the middle of combat just as much as anybody else.

I thank the Chair. I would ask the Senator from New Hampshire, how do we get the death penalty when the only way we can get information out of the suspect is to go through his lawyer? If we can't have this national security interrogation…

Would the Senator yield for a question? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. We have an order for a recess at this hour.

Can you imagine what would have happened if it came out in the public that we told the Pakistani government Bin Laden is over here, go get him and he got away?

We cannot have 535 Commanders in Chief.

We need to look at the AUMF anew, we need to broaden the ability to go after the enemy because it is changing day by day.

The reason I do not want to torture anyone is because that is not who we are about and it hurts us more than it helps us.

The reason President Obama did not do that in all candor is you cannot trust the Pakistan government to go pick up Bin Laden.

My belief is that there is nothing more basic to being Commander in Chief than being able to order people into battle.

The one mistake I will not tolerate is the mistake of believing we are not at war.

The purpose of the law of war is to win the war, is to neutralize the enemy, to gather intelligence.

I want to applaud the Obama administration's what I think is an aggressive and responsible use of the drone program.

Once you are designated an enemy, we do not have to make it a fair fight.