Lindsey Graham

It is time for the citizen soldier to be sitting at the table, not just for political reasons, but for substantive reasons.

The citizen soldier's time has come. You are going to get a seat at the table, General McKinley, if I have anything to say about it.

I urge and will have other Senators urge you to find a solution to this problem within 30 days.

It would be a national disgrace to allow this guy to escape justice.

I buy into the idea of all-of-the-above approach that sometimes Article III courts may be the best venue in trying terrorists.

I have come to conclude--and I may not be the best vote counter in the world--that we are not going to close Gitmo anytime soon.

I just beg and plead with this administration to create an option that is viable, and the only viable option is to use Guantanamo Bay.

We have an election that is coming up in 2012, in November 2012. We will be pressing for the closure of the facility between now and then.

I have come to conclude Gitmo is not going to close, and there is no viable option other than Guantanamo being used.

So my view is that we are less safe if we do not have a prison.

We do not have a jail in the war on terror for future captures, and I think that makes us less safe.

I want to congratulate you and all those who are risking their lives in the war on terror and fighting crime for very serious and substantial tactical successes against a very vicious enemy.

Yes. Mr. McCONNELL. Am I correct, I would say to my friends from South Carolina and New Hampshire and Arizona, that because of the administration's opposition to a detainee treatment provision that was, I gather, approved overwhelmingly in…

Not only are most Americans upset about that but they worry about what comes down the road. That is what I am worried about. The Senate legislation is trying to create a pathway forward for the future. What do you do with these people we…

When I vote, the Supreme Court does matter.

And to any high school student out there, I think it should be.

But we have a national security interest still in Iraq, right? So it's in our national security interest to know what's going on inside that country.

That's the dumbest construct in the entire world, to try to find $600 billion in savings, is to put DOD at risk, destroy the finest military in the history of the world.

But the best thing I think we could do as a Nation, Admiral Mullen, is to provide capacity to will.

Now, you're the guy that said we need to go into Pakistan and get bin Laden. God bless you.

Al Qaeda is the biggest loser in Iraq; would you agree with that, Secretary Panetta?

What I would like to do is actually get the group to go back and look at roles and missions in terms of the general officer force we would need and look at the SES and see how that has been growing or not growing.

We all believe in civilian control of the military, but what we do not want is some political appointee being able to shape legal advice to someone whose career is on the line.

Congress decided to elevate the JAGs so they would be in the room.

We had a very bad problem in the Bush administration that the Obama administration, quite frankly, has corrected.