Lindsey Graham

Winning to me would be withdrawing our forces in a fashion that we could leave where Afghanistan has security forces sufficient to defeat the threats they face.

The theory is if we did a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghans where we have an enduring relationship past 2014 in the areas of the economy, political alliances, and a post-2014 military presence, that would send the right…

Do you think that Congress should look at granting greater authority?

I want to be on the record denouncing Senator McCain's attack on the University of Alabama.

We have people in harm's way over there and we need to understand what is best for them.

It is not in America's interest to leave Georgia without adequate means to defend itself.

The United States needs to build a more normal defense relationship with Georgia, including defensive arms sales in coordination with our NATO allies.

We have a window of time here to engage both countries, and it is in our national security interest to provide the assistance.

I would just say to our Afghan partners and friends that if you do not get the Strategic Partnership Agreement, then the other things are not going to happen.

I think what they are doing with drones has been very, very helpful.

It's hard to ask those who've done the most to secure our freedom to give more, but I'm willing to do it.

The idea of containing a nuclear-armed Iran is not the way to go; the idea is to prevent them from doing it.

If we leave Afghanistan and the issue is in doubt about the future of the Taliban, we will regret it.

I don't see DOD as a job creator for America. That's one of the benefits, but I don't think we should view DOD as a way to just create jobs.

So you would agree with the concept that post-2014 if we had a configuration of American forces with adequate air power to assist the Afghan security forces, plus a Special Forces component, the Taliban days are over in terms of military…

Shouldn't we prevent them from getting a nuclear capability, not contain them?

We would be shooting ourselves in the head. It would be a Navy without ships, without sailors, brigades without bullets, air wings without trained pilots.

It is three times longer than it took to build the Panama Canal itself.

We have absolutely no vision as a Nation as to how to deal with the change in shipping.

From a military commander's point of view, if our Nation is being attacked in a cyber fashion against our defense infrastructure, do you consider that a hostile act?

If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you consider such an attack to be a hostile act against the United States?

If the People's Liberation Army of China is engaged in cyber attacks against this country to steal our defense infrastructure, our trade secrets, our national security information, would you consider such activity, if it did occur, a…

If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you believe that the United States should respond to such an attack?

If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you believe it is legitimate under the Law of War for the United States to respond in kind?

So we would be devastating our military.