Quotes from Jeff Sessions

Every day, lax sentencing costs lives.

I do believe that if you continually go through a cycle of amnesty, that you undermine the respect for the law and encourage more illegal immigration into America.

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?

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.

You don't have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

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.

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.

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

I like to discuss things. I am open: I like to discuss with liberals better than I do with conservatives.

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

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.

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.

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.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.

We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

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.

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

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.

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.

I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.