Lindsey Graham

Almost 80,000 people fail a background check and 44 people are prosecuted. What kind of deterrent is that? I mean, the law obviously is not seeing that as important -- if it is such an important issue why aren't we prosecuting people who…

We should make it easier for them to stay and be part of our country; you agree with that?

I think we have used every adjective known to man to say this is dumb.

But if I have to make that choice, I am going to pick DOD. And I hope I don't ever have to make that choice.

I wish we had more native-born Americans getting into the hard sciences, but we need to welcome people from throughout the world to come here and get an education.

I just don't see how you fix our education and immigration system if we are going to cut the budgets like this.

Sequestration undercuts all the gains we have made in terms of securing our border.

I think it would be very wise for us to follow your lead as Members of the United States Senate, that if we can't figure this out with the President, that all of us ought to follow your model.

Obama of putting his own reelection ahead of the interests of working Americans and our national security.

The payoffs for the Nation are enormous, we improve our national security, we improve our economy, and we deal with real people who have real problems, and we are trying to give them a second chance on our terms, and some of the people we…

Have you ever seen a better opportunity than the moment that exists today to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would prevent a third wave?

I just do not see how you could ever solve this problem if you do not deal with the magnet, which is jobs.

I think the country is tired of talking about it. I think it is time for us to fix it with the goal in mind that there will be no third wave of illegal immigration.

Nobody wants to displace a willing American worker, but I can tell you, in South Carolina there are certain jobs...

Temporary workers are needed in the future, a legal source of labor for American employers.

I can understand why people want to come to America, but I do not understand why we cannot control who comes and on what terms.

The bottom line here is it is not just the high-tech workers. God knows we are going to need...

I think we can all agree that border security has to be part of a comprehensive plan.

Employer verification, and employers who cheat need to be hit hard.

Sequestration is putting us onto a path of putting our military leaders in a great moral dilemma knowing they cannot send people into battle who are not ready, knowing that people are going to die unnecessarily.

Maybe bases closing seems to get everybody's attention in Congress.

I do not think any expansion of background checks is going to be a deterrent until somebody in a real way suffers the consequences under the current system.

I just do not want her to be limited to ten bullets when the real world--everything is a balance.

The only person that could be really affected is the law-abiding person who could be limited.

I do not think criminals are going to be limited by any capacity magazine size law.