Lindsey Graham

The enemy that we're at war with, would you agree, is an unconventional enemy?

I agree with you. We're at war.

There is a difference between a warrior and a criminal.

The only reason they possibly could have come back is because there's been a vacuum created.

The security environment in Afghanistan from my point of view will prevent any civilian success until we change the security environment.

In Iraq we're on offense? The Iraqi people, the Iraqi security forces?

The balance that we're trying to achieve is not to put everybody in Afghanistan in jail because that's counterproductive, but to make sure that the really bad ones don't come back after 96 hours.

About 55 percent of the American people in polls said that they did not support us staying in Afghanistan.

So they're not held in high regard, they don't have an air force, they don't have any armor, but they're winning.

You either win or you lose, and I think everybody wants to win.

We could send a million troops and that will not restore legitimacy to the government; do you agree with that?

The combined Afghan security forces and all coalition forces at this moment are not enough to reverse the lost momentum, is that correct?

I support President Obama's efforts to interject more troops.

I support what the President's doing. I want the American public to know that this has been a NATO operation all along.

I think the U.S. Army, and particularly the National Guard, are training the police.

I think it was a miserable failure and that we now are having to take that job upon ourselves.

The American people need to understand this is going to be difficult, it's going to be more expensive, more lives are going to be lost, but I hope we understand, as a Nation, the consequences of losing.

I think the cost of the Afghan Army at that level's going to be $3 or $4 billion, at the very minimum.

I hope our allies understand that the outcome in Afghanistan is important to them, just as it is to us.

If NATO fails in Afghanistan, it will never recover.

Could you take a look at it and give me an opinion about that?

I think you're excellent choices for the jobs that you're about to take on, and I'm sure you'll be confirmed by the Senate.

I look forward to working with you to clean up what is, quite frankly, a mess.

The point is, whatever relationship we have with Iraq is yet to be determined, I think that's a fair answer.

To me, that is a good thing. You are doing that, right.