Lindsey Graham

Threat-based budgeting is the way to go, you're dead right.

This budget is just driven by an arbitrary number. It comes out of OMB, but it basically is a result of increasing military spending.

I'm excited about your review of the State Department, your listening and taking action to make it a more efficient place.

Thank you, Senator Murphy. Well, we made it. I think you acquitted yourself very well, Mr. Secretary.

To view foreign policy as simply transactional is more dangerous than its proponents realize.

We are a country with a conscience. We have long believed moral concerns must be an essential part of our foreign policy.

Human rights exist above the state and beyond history. They cannot be rescinded by one government any more than they can be granted by another.

Our values make us sympathetic to your plight, and, when it's convenient, we might officially express that sympathy.

It just doesn't work for us to walk away from our global responsibility and then to hurt those who are accepting much more than others.

This budget cuts by 18 percent migration and refugee assistance to countries like Jordan.

I am embarrassed at the policy of this country now when it comes to accepting refugees in the world.

We feel has to be respected because that law was intended to put pressure on the regime to address these oppressive issues

I just don't see how, given the displacement of this many people and no end in sight, that 77 percent reduction in disaster assistance is consistent with the threats we face from the disasters that are going on all over the world.

It's the worst signal to send to a good ally, the worst signal to send to the Russians.

I look at these as an integrated problem, not as simply one item here or one item there.

I don't understand reducing soft power by 29 percent, but we'll work through this, Mr. Secretary.

I would say that increasing military defense spending by 10 percent is absolutely long overdue.

It's unacceptable for me.

This is what we can do without. This is what we need more of.

We can't be Fortress America.

They're fighting and dying with you in Afghanistan without caveats.

What we're saying when we talk about making America great, we're stepping aside, we're letting other countries fill the vacuum, and making the United States less great.

The idea that putting America first requires withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded.

The administration's proposal to slash approximately 30 percent from the State Department and foreign assistance budget signals an American retreat, leaving a vacuum and making us far less safe.

The President said the Iranian nuclear agreement is terrible, and he wants to replace it.