Lindsey Graham
American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was shaped by a generation of figures who moved between military service, law, and elected office. Lindsey Graham, born on July 9, 1955, in Central, South Carolina, is one of those figures — a United States citizen who has built a career spanning the courtroom, the military, and the halls of Congress.
Graham attended D. W. Daniel High School before going on to the University of South Carolina, where he also completed his legal education at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He went on to serve as an air force officer, a period of service that earned him the Meritorious Service Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Air Force Commendation Medal. Those decorations reflect a sustained commitment to military duty that ran alongside his civilian career as a lawyer.
His entry into elected politics came in 1993, when he began serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives, a post he held until 1995. He then moved to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party. In 2003, Graham stepped into the role of senior United States Senator from South Carolina, a position he has continued to hold. From 2019 to 2021, he chaired the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, one of the more prominent committee assignments in the upper chamber.
Beyond his domestic honors, Graham has received international recognition as well. He holds the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise in its first, second, and third classes — a Ukrainian state decoration — as well as the Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. The combination of military medals, Senate leadership, and foreign state honors marks a public record that spans several decades and extends well beyond the borders of South Carolina.
Quotes by Lindsey Graham
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I’m for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That’s not raising taxes. That’s solving a problem.
We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American businesses. Thirty-five percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave. The goal is to help the middle class.
There’s something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers.
We’ve got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let’s create a new legal system, so they’ll have their day in court.
The best deal that Barack Obama can get will not be the best deal to be had because he’s weak and indecisive.
I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don’t trust the Iranians. They’ve been lying and cheating.