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Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has been a prominent figure in national politics, known for his work on issues such as national security, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. He has played a key role in various legislative efforts and has been an outspoken advocate for military support to Ukraine in recent years.

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May 4, 2022

One way you should not hold people accountable is have a hearing where you make accusations.

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May 4, 2022

This is a heavy-handed approach, the most radical agenda in my lifetime, and it should be carried out at the ballot box, and it will be.

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May 4, 2022

This is a political process here. This is an effort to get an outcome you want, using the United States Senate as your vehicle.

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May 4, 2022

This Committee is taking a very dangerous turn under your leadership, to be honest with you.

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May 4, 2022

The people in that plant will make that decision.

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May 3, 2022

Your party funded the dossier first. The FBI was investigating Trump since the summer but did not make it public. The American public deserve to know.

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May 2, 2022

We want to send a signal we're in it to win it and I appreciate the robust response.

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May 2, 2022

I think that President Putin made his decision to invade Ukraine long before we pulled out of Afghanistan, to be very, very candid.

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May 2, 2022

The budget before us is inadequate to the threats we face and over time it's a disaster and I'd like to fix it.

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May 2, 2022

I thought that was the right decision, that pulling everybody out of Afghanistan was a mistake.

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May 2, 2022

We're on the wrong path here from my humble opinion. We're spending below inflation.

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Apr 30, 2022

If Trump doesn't tell these people to go home, we're going to call for the 25th Amendment.

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Apr 26, 2022

If you need to change the law so that Russia fits in, you will have 100 votes.

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Apr 26, 2022

It is just ridiculous to say that we are safer by letting the Taliban take over Afghanistan, and that women have any upside.

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Apr 26, 2022

I think if you want to stop, as Senator Leahy said, one country away from an outbreak, you would revisit Title 42.

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Apr 26, 2022

I am just saying the border is completely broken. We have 1.2 main illegal crossings since October of last year, and there will be a tsunami more coming if we repeal Title 42.

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Apr 26, 2022

I think he invaded this year because I thought he----because he thinks he can get away with it.

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Apr 26, 2022

We are committed to Ukraine's freedom. We are going to win, and you are going to lose.

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Apr 26, 2022

My commitment is this will be the end of Putin one way or the other.

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Apr 26, 2022

I think we can find common ground here that that Putin has no legitimate claim on Ukraine, it is a sovereign nation.

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Apr 26, 2022

So this is not about a buffer zone between Russia and NATO, it is about a man with an ambition that I think is going to destroy his country.

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Apr 26, 2022

There is no upside to the Taliban in charge, for women anywhere in Afghanistan, and I think our homeland is far more at risk now that we have no presence on the ground.

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Apr 26, 2022

I hope you resist that demand, and we will have a discussion about that.

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Apr 26, 2022

I think most of us here believe that Putin wants to recreate the Old Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, Ukraine is just a warm-up act.

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