Jo Graham Quotes

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

I don't think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

I don't see any coronation coming my way

Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.

The Iranians have shared every weapon they've ever developed with terrorist organizations. I fear they would share nuclear technology with a terrorist organization that would one day come here.

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.

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.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.

I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.

I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.

I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.

I don't have kids, but I do understand family, and I understand how precious family is.

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.

I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen.

I think most Americans understand that radical Islam can't be compromised with or appeased. And the only way we can be safe is to form partnerships over there that will protect us over here.

If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

We don't have enough American troops inside of Iraq to destroy ISIL any time soon.

The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

Pity is a corroding thing.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!