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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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Mar 28, 2021

I own an AR-15. If there`s a natural disaster in South Carolina, where the cops can`t protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to, because I can defend myself.

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Mar 28, 2021

H.R.1 is the biggest power grab in the history of the country.

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Mar 26, 2021

Vice President Harris, this is your job to fix. I promise you, I will work with you, but you cannot possibly understand your job unless you come here.

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Mar 25, 2021

Senator Graham told him he needed to toss out all the mail-in ballots from some Georgia counties.

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Mar 24, 2021

For us to get out of debt, we are going to have to adjust entitlement spending and maybe revenue generation, too.

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Mar 24, 2021

Is it true that about 30 percent-plus of Americans pay no income tax?

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Mar 24, 2021

I think it is about $30 trillion. I cannot remember. But, you know, it is a fraction of what you would need to get us out of debt, is my question.

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Mar 24, 2021

Okay. Let us see if we can get a baseline of understanding about whether all these numbers are accurate or not.

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Mar 24, 2021

We will fight you appropriately and respectfully as you try to rearrange America in a fashion that I think is contrary to what we stand for as a country.

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Mar 24, 2021

Tax policy is job policy. The way you structure your Tax Code is going to determine how competitive you can be vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

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Mar 24, 2021

We need to make sure that the tax code is not rigged in favor of the wealthy

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Mar 24, 2021

This insatiable desire by my friends on the left to grab as much money and power as they can is going to ruin the country.

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Mar 24, 2021

So Social Security and Medicare have to be dealt with, or they are going to run into a major shortfall.

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Mar 24, 2021

What Senator Sanders does not get, in my view, is that most people who are struggling to make it out there would like to be wealthy and do not resent people who are wealthy who have done it right and fairly.

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Mar 24, 2021

If Senator Sanders gets his way, it is going to be hard for corporations to remain competitive in our country.

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Mar 24, 2021

These debates are very worth having, well worth having. In 2017, we did, in fact, cut taxes.

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Mar 24, 2021

This is not a Trump problem. This is a Biden problem. Trump brought order to chaos. This will be the Achilles heel the undoing of the Biden administration will be their immigration policies.

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Mar 22, 2021

Eventually, it`s going to be a national security crisis, because there are children today, but there could easily be terrorists tomorrow.

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Mar 21, 2021

This is about expanding the Senate map.

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Mar 18, 2021

I demand that the Justice Department open a federal criminal investigation immediately since obviously this affidavit proved that the entire election in Pennsylvania was fraudulent and the whole state was stolen for Biden.

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Mar 17, 2021

Here`s what Biden needs to understand. If you go to the talking filibuster, we will take the floor to stop H.R.1. I would talk until I fell over to make sure that we don`t go to ballot harvesting and voting by mail without voter I.D. I…

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Mar 17, 2021

If you go to the talking filibuster, we will take the floor to stop H.R.1. I would talk until I fell over to make sure that we don’t go to ballot harvesting and voting by mail without voter I.D.

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Mar 16, 2021

Have we let too much power consolidate in the hands of Big Tech?

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Mar 16, 2021

Do you worry that if our tax rates are out of line on the corporate side with the rest of the world, that we will incentivize American companies maybe to leave?

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Mar 16, 2021

One thing we will agree on is that you believe this. You have been the most consistent voice I think in the country over a long period of time on issues like this.

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