Lindsey Graham

Any gun should be denied someone who is mentally unstable?

Do you believe that the best way to deter somebody from misconduct is to make sure that prosecution is certain and swift?

I agree with Senator Franken we should do something about mental health.

I think if you are looking for some common ground, Mr. Cooper, it seems to me this would be a good place to start.

I do not think it is going to do much good.

Was any DOD asset ever deployed to help these people before the end of the attack?

Secretary Panetta, you will be missed. You've served our Nation well.

I want this committee to continue to ask questions about what the President knew before and during this attack.

I want to make sure I understand what you said about Syria. Both of you agreed with Petraeus and Clinton that we should start looking at military assistance in Syria; is that correct?

Don't you think that saying has been undermined here?

I just want to make sure that we understand what happened on September 11 regarding Benghazi.

It's certainly up to the President to make all these decisions.

Were there any AC-130 gunships within 1,000 miles of Benghazi, Libya?

Was any airplane launched anywhere in the world before the attack was concluded?

So you talked to him for 30 minutes one time and you never talked to him again, either one of you?

What signal would that be sending to our troops and to our enemies? What kind of national security impact would it be in the times in which we live if there was no agreement to fund the Government?

If I were the Iranians, I would send a thank you note to Congress for grounding more Air Force planes than they could on their own.

It would lead to what I believe would be a fractured state, a larger safe haven for al Qaeda types, and over time would be a disaster.

From Israel's standpoint, one of the worst nightmares for them, short of an Iranian nuclear weapon, would be Hezbollah getting advanced weapons sold to Assad by Russia.

Iraq would just begin to fall apart at a faster rate--do you agree with that--because it is destabilizing the country?

It would be a horrible thing for the Mideast, would it not?

He told me he did not think he would be here in another year because there will be a million Syrian refugees and it is destabilizing Jordan.

So that means it is worse for us for him to stay and we not be able to achieve our policy.

It would be a very important gamechanger, absolutely.

If the Russians said we want you gone tomorrow, would it matter to Assad? Absolutely.