Lindsey Graham

He is one of the longest serving mayors, I think, in the country.

The higher the number, the more the authority you have to get, but not let it stand in the way of getting some cash into the region, because it is a balancing act, Mayor Riley, that we are trying to achieve here.

I have never known anyone that enjoys their job more than Mayor Riley.

Safe exploration for oil and gas here in America makes a lot of sense.

The review of this Act, the Stafford Act, is probably long overdue.

If we don't learn something from this Gulf spill and fix it, that is unacceptable.

Nobody in their right mind would expect a marine to read someone caught on the battlefield their rights.

We are at war, and we have to realize the profile of the enemy, and you do not want to focus on law-abiding American Muslim males who are serving in the military unjustifiably.

I want us to take our Social Security cards and make them biometric.

There is no constitutional right to get on an airplane without being screened.

I want to keep that charge available to our government.

I believe my right to own a gun should not be infringed because some nut is going to take a gun and use it wrongfully.

It is my belief that the Supreme Court would allow the Congress to write a law that said the homeland is part of the battlefield.

I do not think banning handguns makes me safer, because every criminal who wants a gun seems to be able to get one.

The idea that America has gaps in her defenses is really a timely topic.

There's a disconnect here between what we're saying in reality. The watch list, when you look at the numbers, has so many problems with it that I think is not appropriate to go down the road that we're going, because a constitutional right…

But I bet you everything I own, if you bring it up in this environment, not having done anything that is going to reassure the American public that we will not have 20 million more, that you are going to crash and burn.

I do not think it is. I think since the last effort to solve immigration, the border security has deteriorated.

Once we get there, comprehensive reform should come up, will come up, and I believe we can do it by 2012 if we are smart.

Let us get this environment corrected on border security, move forward in a comprehensive fashion, secure the border, protect America, and be fair to the 12 million people.

I think 70 percent of Americans are in the camp that illegal immigrants need to be fairly and firmly dealt with, and fairly and firmly does not mean mass arrests.

And I would say to what Senator Sessions said, all of us kind of look the other way as long as the labor needs are being met.

Do we have 60 votes to bring up comprehensive immigration reform between now and November?

For anybody who is watching this issue who wants relief in the Hispanic community, you deserve it.

I would bet everything I own that the answer is this 2007 bill will not pass.