Lindsey Graham

Defeating ISIS permanently has to have a hold-and-build strategy.

What signal are we sending to Georgia when we cut their assistance 66 percent at a time when Russia is on the prowl?

The terrorists love this. The terrorists hate the idea that America shows up with some food and education.

Twenty million people are currently at risk of famine.

I think it's penny-wise and pound-foolish.

I am proud of President George W. Bush 43, who came up with a program called the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Now is not the time to decrease Embassy security funding unless you're going to close a lot of embassies.

I really don't think so.

I intend to be your partner and champion for reforming the State Department.

This budget request is in many ways radical and reckless when it comes to soft power.

I like the way you represent our country. You have a style that's pretty good for the world as it is today.

If you are a national security component of our overall defense strategy, why we would cut you now given the threats we face?

Why are we cutting it by a billion dollars?

According to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, more than 11 million renter households are 'severely burdened' by housing costs.

That is why sequestration is a disaster. That is why we need to build up our military, but you cannot do it by cutting everything else.

If we are not in Afghanistan, you are going to pay a heavy price because that place will fall apart.

I do support increasing our troop presence in Afghanistan as an insurance policy against another 9/11.

The only thing more expensive than deterrence is actually fighting a war, and the only thing more expensive than fighting a war is fighting one and losing it.

The cuts that Senator Durbin described are real and they will affect the ability to defend the Nation too.

If you cut the State Department's budget, you better buy me more ammo because soft power is basically important to the overall cause.

The last thing you want to do is go back into sequestration.

There is not a bipartisan effort.

There seems to be, and I think we all owe it. I am a little preachy here, but that is okay. It is my time.

I think we all owe it to these men and women to give them a little better certainty in what is going to happen in their lives.

I think it is incumbent upon us to help you better than we are doing. Let us buy back sequestration.