Lindsey Graham Quotes

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a good fighter.

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

The secret of America is compromise. Compromise is a sign of weakness in any other country. In America it is a great strength.

It’s better to negotiate with a soft voice and a loaded gun, than to negotiate with just a soft voice.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

Strong men know when to compromise.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

If you can’t learn to compromise an issue without compromising yourself then you better not be a legislator and you better not marry.

We must want peace, but not be afraid of war because our fear of war made us compromise during these past few years with our principles and our standards.

We need to be tough once again in the world.

What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

My hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick.