Quotes from Jeff Sessions

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.

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.

At a time when this country needs a good military, the last thing we need to be doing is turning out of our military of people who served and then bringing in people who are illegally in the country.

I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

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

Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

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.

I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.

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.

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

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.

More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.

Some of my best friends are FBI agents.

You cannot be president of the United States if people below $50,000 don't think you care about them and you have no real communication that motivates them to vote for you.

Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.

It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.

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.

The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.