Jeff Sessions

“Every day, lax sentencing costs lives.”

“The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.”

“The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.”

“Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business.”

“You know the discrimination: African-Americans couldn't go to certain schools, they couldn't use certain restrooms, there were other kinds of routine biases against them.”

“We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.”

“I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.”

“If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama... can sustain that growth.”

“All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.”

“Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.”

“It's not so much the attorney general's job to decide what laws to enforce. We should do our jobs and enforce laws effectively as we're able.”

“It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.”

“How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.”

“After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?”

“It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.”

“I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.”

“As Washington prospers, workers suffer.”

“In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.”

“The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.”

“Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.”