A biography for Jeff Sessionshasn’t been written yet.
“My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them.”
“I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.”
“Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.”
“Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.”
“We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.”
“You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.”
“Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.”
“Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.”
“My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.”
“It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.”
“I'm a big fan of the DEA.”
“We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.”
“Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States.”
“I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.”
“Whereas the handling of the case against President Nixon clearly strengthened the nation's respect for law, justice and truth, the Clinton impeachment may unfortunately have the opposite result.”
“This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.”
“My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.”
“We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.”
“I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States.”
“Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.”