Lindsey Graham

Eighty-seven thousand people are going to be put out of work over the next 5 or 6 years.

How can you convince us that the current course on NGEN will be the best approach for the Navy and for the taxpayer?

The visa program has always had a wage calculation requirement.

We want a visa program on the high-tech and low-tech end that actually meets employers' needs, is that correct?

But if you can't hire an American, do you agree with me we should have a visa program that works for American employers?

I mean, I just wonder, I mean, if we have 8.3 percent unemployment, and maybe 15 percent of underemployed, and people have stopped working, how can it be that we need visa programs for the seafood industry, the landscaping industry, and…

Has he proposed a plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy?

Would you agree that Medicare and Medicaid have grown in unsustainable ways, and without serious reform, those two programs alone are going to bankrupt the country?

I guess my concern is that we are expanding Government healthcare programs, to me, that need to be reformed, not expanded.

In South Carolina, as I understand it, if the Medicaid eligibility is expanded and implemented in 2014 as envisioned by Obama healthcare, my State will be required to come up with close to $1 billion of new State funding over a 6- or…

I think the Bush administration relied way too much on Executive power, and that this administration is reluctant to use power that has been there.

I thought he had every legal right to do so, and, quite frankly, that was a good outcome.

I want to make sure we have a legal system that recognizes the distinction between fighting a crime and fighting a war.

I think reading Miranda rights when you capture someone on the homeland is not the best way to gather intelligence.

What drives my thinking, Senator Feinstein, is that my primary goal is to get as much good intelligence as we can when we capture someone.

I am an all-of-the-above approach guy.

I do not want to torture anybody. And prosecution is a secondary concern to me.

My view is that an American citizen helping al Qaeda is basically engaging in a war against us.

The national security goal is to find out what that person, even if it is an American citizen, knows about enemy operations.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone captured in the United States held as an enemy combatant has a habeas right to appear before a judge.

I believe that after 9/11 we have been in an undeclared state of war with al Qaeda.

If the Senator will yield, here is the good news: It wouldn't take much to exceed expectations. But I want to say to the west coast Senators that their ports need to be modernized too. They need transportation hubs around their ports. The…

I think we are down to 600 American military personnel.

Well, sooner rather than later would be the goal.

The Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement after our meeting saying that the NGO law in question was unjust.