Lindsey Graham

I feel we need to impose those sanctions as aggressively as we can.

I would argue that we need to be looking at Syria through the same prism, that people are literally being slaughtered.

The question for me is, 'Can you afford to lose?' The answer is 'No'.

I went with Senator McCain and others to deliver the message to the Egyptian Government that we would not tolerate this kind of behavior, that we want a good relationship.

No one wants a conflict with Iran, but no one, I believe, in their right mind wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

Is it the position of this administration to deny them the ability to become a nuclear threshold state?

I support the idea that United Nations subdivisions not unilaterally confer statehood on the Palestinians without first negotiating with the Israelis.

We urge the Congress to enact balanced deficit reduction legislation that avoids sequestration.

The problem is that their government, as Senator Leahy says, is very dysfunctional.

I think we can be successful in Afghanistan because, based on my view of the country, there is a lot of will to change Afghanistan.

I have always believed that we are fighting an idea, not just a person, that killing bin Laden is a great accomplishment for the United States.

I think that has been a great breakthrough, and I don't want to take too much more of your time here.

If you are an American out there and you are spending all this money on Afghanistan, you see the cross being burned and the President being burned in effigy, that is certainly not reassuring.

And we have a rule of law center we are developing at the University of South Carolina Law School, and I know USAID is very involved in rule of law development.

I agree with Senator Leahy on a lot in this effort to craft a foreign operations account that is more focused on results.

There is so much business to be done in Africa between a continent and the United States on the food side.

Senator Leahy and I, one Republican and one Democrat from different political spectrums and perspectives, really do want to engage the world in a constructive fashion.

Every 6,000 years you get a chance for democracy in Egypt. I hope it doesn't pass.

I think we have a good strategy, but it is imperative that we deliver quickly when it really does matter.

Can I just point out to the subcommittee how important that fund is?

Senator Leahy and I are very much concerned about what is going on in Egypt right now.

The Arab Spring to me is a defining opportunity for change in the Arab world.

I believe it is in our national interest that they move forward.

I had a chance to go and see the program in action in Ghana and Tanzania and South Africa, and I was just astounded what a little bit of money can do spent well.

Well, between Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, how would you rate our efforts to control mother-to-child AIDS transmission?