Lindsey Graham

You've got a judge who has been on a Circuit Court for a dozen years.

Under the Law of Armed Conflict, do you agree with the following statement, that if a person is detained who is properly identified through accepted legal procedures under the Law of Armed Conflict as a part of the enemy force, there is no…

If Lindsey Graham said that I will make a better Senator than X because of my experience as a Caucasian male, makes me better able to represent the people of South Carolina, and my opponent was a minority, it would make national news, and…

There needs to be more women and minorities in the law to make a better America.

The speeches really do. I mean, the speech you gave to the ACLU about foreign law--was pretty disturbing.

To deny a low-income woman Medicaid funding, taxpayer funds to have an abortion, if you deny her that, that's a form of slavery.

What would a woman's life be in their world if they can control a government or a part of the world? What do they have in store for women?

I never liked appearing before a judge that I thought was a bully.

I hope one day that there will be more women serving in elected official and judicial offices in the Mideast.

If that comes of this hearing, the hearing has been worth it all, that some people deserve a second chance when they misspeak.

Your organization argued for the repeal of the death penalty because it was unfairly applied and discriminatory against minorities.

I would have loved to have been on the other side, that your organization advocated taxpayer funded abortion and said in a brief that to deny a poor black woman Medicaid funding for an abortion was equivalent to the Dred Scott case.

No Republican would have chosen you, Judge. That is just the way it is.

The Hispanic element of this hearing is important, but I don't want it to be lost that this is mostly about liberal and conservative politics more than it is anything else.

We have got to fix that somehow. We have got to make people care.

I think Senator Martinez and myself are convinced that if we increase penalties, the cost of doing business would be harder.

I really do want to send a signal that if you are robbing the system, you are cheating the system, you are hurting the country.

Do you think it would be wise to look at doing something new?

Can you get this from eating pork? [Laughter.]

But if we do go to a mandatory immunization to the population as a whole like we have done in the past, I think we need to really think about what exposure the health care professionals have and do something about it now while we have the…

Can you see any reasonable possibility down the road based on science where that might be required?

OK. Making sure we are on message here.

I am just suggesting a lot of criticism about Iraq is you always assume the best and never plan for the worst.

One last question. If we change the law or we change the sentencing to be more balanced and, quite frankly, fair given powder cocaine, do you worry that we send the wrong message?

I think this is a topic long overdue for discussion.