Lindsey Graham

I want to build on that just to make sure we understand about a potential attack on a Navy base here at home. No one is suggesting the military could not use force against an al-Qaida attack here at home. The Hamdi case was an American…

We thought there was 20 minutes on each side. Apparently, it is close enough. Just a few minutes? But I want Senator Ayotte to wrap this up.

I'm willing to generate revenue. It's fair to ask my party to put revenue on the table. We're below historian averages. I will not raise tax rates to do it. I will cap deductions.

The tax code is a social engineering document that reward friends and punish enemies.

Well, I think the House got reelected. Their mandate is to not raise tax rates.

Raising tax rates was rejected by Simpson-Bowles and the gang of six. There will be no Republican that will go down that road because it will hurt job creation.

Simpson-Bowles is the way forward, Anderson. And what did Simpson-Bowles do? They didn't raise tax rates. They eliminated deductions.

I want to see a solution that will not lead to 12 million illegal immigrants 20 years from now.

I just think the honest truth is that we have a demographic problem. If we had gotten 40 percent of the Hispanic vote, Mitt Romney would be president.

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

Well, I tell you what. Why don't we let my colleague speak, and then the Senator from Illinois will have all the time he needs. What does my colleague, the Senator from Georgia, Mr. Chambliss, think?

Whatever the Senator from Illinois wishes to do. I am dying to hear how my Democratic colleagues think it is good government not to have a special independent counsel investigate the most damaging national security leak in decades. I am…

Would the Senator yield? Mr. McCAIN. Yes. And I know our most eloquent member has arrived on the floor, not to mention other attributes we are lacking.

The individual conduct has to be balanced against who we want to be as a nation.

One of the roles that Congress provides in our democracy is oversight, and this is an issue that I am glad that we are talking about.

President Obama's attempt to go around Congress and the American people is at best unwise and possibly illegal.

If you want to double that, you're going to destroy the best military we've ever had.

I applaud you tremendously for doing that.

We're not going to get out of the debt by lowering the military spending alone.

It seems like the biggest bipartisan accomplishment we've had in recent memory is to destroy the Defense Department.

You're having to make choices between the retired healthcare costs and fighting this war and future wars.

I want to be generous, but I want it to be sustainable.

It's unsustainable for you, if we do not bring this program into some kind of a sustainable footprint.

That there's a Pearl Harbor in the making here.

It would be better off for the country if you would pick somebody that we all could buy into