The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

Lindsey Graham

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The world is literally about to blow up. by Lindsey Graham

The world is literally about to blow up.

humorous blow funny

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don... by Lindsey Graham

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

environmental republican party

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy. by Lindsey Graham

My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy.

bats party crazy

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

use people thinking

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business... by Lindsey Graham

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

technology class years

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally. by Lindsey Graham

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

paying-taxes taxes

I’m a Verizon customer. I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I don’t think you’re talking to the terrorists. I know you’re not. I know I’m not. So we don’t have anything to worry about.

phones government thinking

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

party country moving

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart. by Lindsey Graham

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

running fall thinking

Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could.

cake gay couple

I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else.

dream jobs fall

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

reconstruction retail home

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republi... by Lindsey Graham

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

republican hard-times today

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. by Lindsey Graham

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

red-lipstick judging hot

I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

climate real believe

We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.

class jobs america

Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

wings giving people

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

escalation kind pay