Quotes from Jeff Sessions

I couldn't vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country - the senior person - and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States.

I do believe we have voter fraud in America.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

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?

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.

The elite denizens of Washington and Wall Street scorn and mock the good and decent people of this country for wanting their laws enforced and their communities protected.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.

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

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.

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

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

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.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.