Lindsey Graham

I think you would be doing the country a great service to appoint someone new that we all could buy into.

Vice President Biden was on TV morning, noon, and night urging the Bush administration to appoint a special counsel in the Valerie Plame case.

The very people who are in charge of a White House that I believe has compromised national security unlike any time in recent memory

If there was ever a need for an outside special counsel, it is now.

There is no doubt in my mind that if the shoe were on the other foot, you and everybody on that side would be screaming that I have to appoint a special prosecutor

Do you think it was a good thing to have a special counsel in the Jack Abramoff case?

Bipartisan support for such a measure initially surfaced when Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham reached across the ideological and party divide to cosponsor the first Chinese currency bill in 2005.

I would just close and yield the floor to Senator Menendez. The Senator is right about the resolution. We are not coming up with a new idea; we are just reinforcing an idea put on the table by our own President--we are not going to contain…

Yes. Mr. McCAIN. So doesn't that mean the United States of America would reserve all options in case of an unacceptable situation where the Iranians continued--and we have seen no deviation from that path-- toward the acquisition of a…

I think we should have as many options as possible within our values and within the law of war and the criminal justice system to defend ourselves.

I want to treat people fairly. I believe in all of the above. But I am not going to sit on the sidelines and go back to a pre-9/11 model of where the criminal justice system is the only tool available to fight this war.

It is not the crime on terror. It is the war on terror.

We have a right to defend ourselves.

I do not believe it is the policy of Obama administration that foreign terrorists captured in the United States cannot be tried by military commissions and cannot be held as enemy combatants.

I think they want to kill us everywhere, but particularly here.

U.S. citizens are not eligible for military commission. Do you agree with that?

I do not believe there was much of an effort to deliver comprehensive immigration reform in the first year, and I do not think it is Congress' fault.

I could not agree more, but, you know, human beings being human beings, we all make mistakes.

I think some of these terrorist organizations are actually trying to come to our country and recruit within our own.

The only reason I suggest that we need to maybe look at little harder is because we are lucky to have found out about this.

Let us go to the recent tragedy in France where you had a young French citizen, a Muslim, who went to, I think, Pakistan to study at a madrassa there, came back to France and engaged in horrific acts of terrorism. Do you worry about that…

I would just suggest that maybe we look at changing the system a bit so that people who are away from home never really believe they are away from home, that somebody is always watching.

Would you agree that probably the idea of homegrown terrorism and attack from within is greater today than it was, say, maybe 5 years ago, the radicalization?

Well, what we should be looking for is actions by individuals within groups, statements made that send signals...

I cannot say I understand, because I do not.