Jeff Sessions Quotes

We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

Some of my best friends are FBI agents.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

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.

Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.

I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and once we committed we should see it through.

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

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the [Donald] Trump campaign.

We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.

When I present evidence, I expect the judge to hear and see all the evidence that gets presented.

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

At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.

I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.

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

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.

I think the people who go to work every day don't feel like Washington cares a whit about them,and, actually, they're executing policies that are bad for them.

I think that the real future of the American party is to bring in working Americans.

I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut that and prove that did not happen.

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.

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

I think it's an honorable thing that Donald Trump is doing.

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by the L.G.B.T. community.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.

People react not very wisely sometimes.

[Donald Trump] said we're going to have a big door. He means lawful immigration will continue, but we're not going to allow the nation to be at risk in this fashion.

Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.

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

[Donald] Trump is where the Republicans are, and if you're going to be a Republican leader you should be supportive of that.

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.

To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border."

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

[Ronald Reagan] appealed to that group of [working American] people and we can do it again, because they've had, now, eight years of [Barak] Obama. Things have not gone well.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.

My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.

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

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.

Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.

We can never go back.

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

Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.

Voters are saying "I like this guy [Donald Trump]. He just might shake this place up."