“Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?”

American politician and attorney

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who was born in 1946. He served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018 and spent two decades in the United States Senate representing Alabama. A Republican, Sessions was a senator from 1997 to 2017 before leaving the seat to join the first administration of President Donald Trump as attorney general. His tenure ended in 2018, after Trump dismissed him during the investigations into Russian interference and after Sessions had recused himself from those probes.